Charlie Newling: Inside Bachelorette star’s downward spiral before his car went off a cliff in Sydney – as disturbing details emerge about how cops had to protect his girlfriend and his alcohol abuse

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A star from The Bachelorette who met his death by driving his car off a cliff has been served three restraining orders in the past three years: two on behalf of his girlfriend and one to protect a man.

Charlie Newling was served with domestic violence warrants by NSW Police on behalf of his partner Krystal Taylor, 32, in March 2021 and July 2022, Daily Mail Australia can reveal.

The reality show star, 36, was initially ordered to follow, assault, threaten, stalk, harass or intimidate the young woman, or recklessly destroy her property.

In a second instance, he was ordered not to approach or be near her for at least 12 hours after drinking alcohol or using illegal drugs.

Police also applied for an AVO against Newling, who was also a builder, in January 2021 on behalf of an unknown man on the NSW north coast.

Newling, who appeared in Ali Oetjen’s 2018 season of the Channel Ten show, died at 11pm last Friday evening when his car drove off a cliff at Dover Heights, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

Mr Newling and his girlfriend, who lived in Sydney’s east, had welcomed his second child just eight weeks ago.

Newling and Ms Taylor are said to have met in 2020 while briefly living in a share house in Yamba in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales.

A friend confirmed Ms Taylor was previously engaged to another man before starting a relationship with Newling and moving to Bondi together.

“They moved in together, but he no longer had control over his alcohol and medication,” the insider said.

The restraining orders came about at the same time in his life as a number of disturbing public incidents.

Following his stint on TV, Newling made headlines after footage circulated of him being forcibly removed from the Golden Sheaf Hotel in Double Bay by security guards.

Newling, who had appeared on The Project earlier that evening, said he had been drinking and celebrating his time on the show with friends when a scuffle broke out with bouncers at around 10.50pm.

After the incident, it emerged that he had a then eight-year-old son from a previous relationship that he had not disclosed in the program.

In September 2022, he was convicted of threatening to kill his stepfather and sentenced to 13 months in prison.

He threatened to torture his stepfather in a series of 37 text messages to his mother over a three-hour period.

“You are still controlled by that flogging of a husband,” read one message to his mother. “I’m going to kill him in front of you one day before I go.

“You have no idea what I’m capable of, but you just know it won’t be pretty,” before suggesting he urinate on him.

Magistrate Ross Hudson heard Newling had suffered significant childhood trauma, including when he was left to care for his biological father as a teenager after an accident left him paralyzed.

His father died of a pain medication overdose in 2018.

The court also heard that Newling, who worked as a builder after finding fame on The Bachelorette, had struggled with alcohol abuse.

At the time of the threats, he was under a court order after a 2021 drunk driving offense.

Friends and family have witnessed Newling’s declining mental health and alarming alcohol abuse in recent years, including stays in rehabilitation centers and attempted self-harm.

Police and ambulance crews rushed to Raleigh Reserve, Dover Heights, on Friday after being contacted by locals who found his car on fire at the bottom of the 70-metre cliff.

“They worked until the early hours and had two men come down from a helicopter to pick him up,” said a local resident.

Newling will be buried at a later date.

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