{"id":245901,"date":"2026-06-12T19:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/steve-burton-accuses-ex-wife-sheree-gustin-of-parental-alienation-amid-ongoing-custody-battle\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:38:45","slug":"steve-burton-accuses-ex-wife-sheree-gustin-of-parental-alienation-amid-ongoing-custody-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/steve-burton-accuses-ex-wife-sheree-gustin-of-parental-alienation-amid-ongoing-custody-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Burton Accuses Ex-Wife Sheree Gustin of &#8216;Parental Alienation&#8217; Amid Ongoing Custody Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2229079\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/steve-burton\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Steve Burton<\/strong><\/a> is making new allegations against ex-wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/sheree-gustin\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Sheree Gustin<\/strong><\/a> amid their ongoing custody battle.<\/p>\n<p>In new court documents obtained by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/12\/parents\/general-hospital-star-steve-burton-accuses-ex-wife-of-parental-alienation-from-daughter-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Page Six<\/a><\/em>, the 55-year-old <em>General Hospital<\/em> actor claimed that his ex-wife is engaging in \u201cblatant parental alienation\u201d and \u201csystematically\u201d undermining his relationship with their 11-year-old daughter <strong>Brooklyn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve <\/strong>also alleged that <strong>Sheree<\/strong> has \u201cmade it impossible\u201d for him to exercise his court-ordered custody by \u201crepeatedly refus[ing]\u201d to allow his current wife <strong>Michelle Lundstrom<\/strong>, whom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/05\/18\/general-hospital-star-steve-burton-marries-michelle-lundstrom-in-laguna-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he married in 2025<\/a>, to pick up his daughter from school on his behalf even though she is a \u201cconsistent parental figure\u201d in the child\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, <strong>Sheree<\/strong>\u2019s actions have created unnecessary obstacles to my ability to exercise my custodial time and maintain regular and meaningful contact with <strong>Brooklyn<\/strong>. Instead of supporting my relationship with our daughter, <strong>Sheree<\/strong> has routinely made exercising my parenting time more difficult than necessary,\u201d <strong>Steve<\/strong> stated in his complaint.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage mobile-image-full-width\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/steve-custody.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"1097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/steve-custody-788x1097.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Burton custody battle update\" class=\"wp-image-2229125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/steve-custody-788x1097.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/steve-custody-428x596.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100px, 100vw\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Additionally, <strong>Steve<\/strong> accused <strong>Sheree<\/strong> of refusing to \u201cacknowledge <strong>Michelle<\/strong>\u2019s role as [his] wife or <strong>Michelle<\/strong>\u2019s daughters as <strong>Brooklyn<\/strong>\u2019s stepsisters,\u201d despite saying that <strong>Brooklyn<\/strong> has a \u201cclose relationship\u201d with them.<\/p>\n<p>He further alleged that ex-wife refused to work with him on letting <strong>Brooklyn<\/strong> visit his home in Tennessee after he moved out of California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve<\/strong> claimed that <strong>Sheree<\/strong> \u201cmanipulates\u201d him into giving up his custodial time and has been \u201cdeliberately manipulating Brooklyn into wanting to spend Christmas with her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, in her response filming obtained by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/general-hospital-steve-burton-accuses-ex-wife-parental-alienation-daughter-11996131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People<\/a><\/em>, <strong>Sheree<\/strong> denied <strong>Steve<\/strong>\u2018s claims of \u201calienation,\u201d explaining that the former couple had worked out a parenting schedule in previous litigation.<\/p>\n<p>She insisted that she is happy for <strong>Brooklyn<\/strong> to spend time with her father, but doesn\u2019t want the 11-year-old to \u201cspend half her life traveling\u201d and be away from home for longer than three weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheree <\/strong>argued that if <strong>Steve<\/strong> wants to see his daughter more than the allotted time, he can come to California to visit her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2022\/07\/11\/steve-burton-files-for-divorce-from-sheree-gustin-after-over-20-years-together\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first filed for divorce<\/a> in July 2022 after 20 years together, and just a few months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2022\/05\/04\/general-hospital-alum-steve-burton-splits-from-pregnant-wife-sheree-gustin-says-the-child-is-not-mine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcing they were separated<\/a> and she was pregnant with another man\u2019s child. Along with <strong>Brooklyn<\/strong>, <strong>Steve<\/strong> and Sherre are also parents to daughter <strong>McKenna<\/strong>, 23, and <strong>Jack<\/strong>, 20.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, <strong>Steve<\/strong> announced that he is taking an extended break from <em>General Hospital<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/02\/10\/why-steve-burton-is-taking-an-extended-break-from-general-hospital-two-years-after-he-returned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out why<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/sheree-gustin\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheree Gustin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/steve-burton\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Burton<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/12\/steve-burton-accuses-ex-wife-sheree-gustin-of-parental-alienation-amid-ongoing-custody-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty Steve Burton is making new allegations against ex-wife Sheree Gustin amid their ongoing custody battle. In new court documents obtained by Page Six, the 55-year-old General Hospital actor claimed that his ex-wife is engaging in \u201cblatant parental alienation\u201d and \u201csystematically\u201d undermining his relationship with their 11-year-old daughter Brooklyn. Steve also alleged that Sheree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}