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Kristy Swanson discusses alleged assault

Two days after being arrested on charges of assault, Kristy Swanson spoke to “Access Hollywood” about the aftermath of the altercation with the ex-wife of her current companion, Lloyd Eisler.
/ Source: Access Hollywood

Two days after being arrested on charges of assault, Kristy Swanson spoke to “Access Hollywood” about the aftermath of the altercation with the ex-wife of her current companion, Lloyd Eisler.

“I'm OK. I'm dealing,” she told “Access.” “The show must go on, sort of stuff, you know.”

According to reports, Swanson pressed assault charges Sunday against Marcia O'Brien, the ex-wife of Eisler, her companion and former “Skating With Celebrities” partner.

Police took pictures of bruises on her back and other parts of her body to document injuries Swanson claimed she got during a scuffle with O'Brien on Friday in Canada, said Swanson spokesman Michael Sands.

And while O'Brien insists Swanson attacked her, in a statement released to “Access Hollywood” on Sunday, Sands claims it was O'Brien who attacked Swanson in Kingston, Ont.

“On Friday night, June 15, 2007, in Kingston, Ont., our client, Kristy Swanson was assaulted by Lloyd Eisler's ex wife, Marcia O' Brien, while walking from the passenger seat to give her four-month-old son, a pacifier. The child of Kristy Swanson and Lloyd Eisler was in the back child safety seat of the minivan along with Lloyd's two young children. Kristy was accompanying Lloyd on a scheduled parental visit to Kingston,” according to Michael Sands, spokesman for Swanson and Eisler.

Sands claims Swanson suffered bruises on her left knee, bruises and scratches on her left arm and a scratch under her left arm, near her back as a result of the attack.

“I am sorry that my ex-wife is being so vindictive. I left my wife, contrary to what other media sources have reported in the past. My ex-wife is trying to cover up the assault by falsely pressing charges with the local Constable first,” Eisler said in a statement.

Swanson, 37, and Eisler, 44, met on FOX’s “Skating With Celebrities” last year. The couple announced they were pregnant back in August 2006. Swanson gave birth to the couple's first child in February.