Former Disney Channel star Skai Jackson was arrested and charged with domestic battery against her boyfriend.
Jackson, 22, was arrested following an alleged fight with her boyfriend at Universal CityWalk mall in Hollywood on August 9. Mall security guards spotted the altercation and detained the couple, according to TMZ.
Security called the police after seeing Skai repeatedly shove her unnamed boyfriend.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that the petite actress pushed her boyfriend more than once.
Skai and her boyfriend both denied fighting. Skai said she is pregnant and they are engaged. But police watched surveillance video of the altercation and determined she was the aggressor.
Skai Jackson, who is 5-ft-3, was arrested for misdemeanor domestic battery against her boyfriend. She was booked and released a few hours later.
According to TMZ, the case will be reviewed by the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office to determine if charges are warranted.
Nothing is known about Skai’s boyfriend, since she’s chosen to keep him off of her social media. Reddit users claim he’s a drug dealer, but that rumor has not been confirmed.
One Reddit user wrote:
Friend of mine was recently on a flight with Skai and her boyfriend. My friend said that Skai was in a middle seat a few rows behind her boyfriend iirc (if I remember correctly). The boyfriend was in an aisle seat. All coach seats btw. IIRC apparently there was some commotion because Skai was begging to switch her middle seat for the aisle seat near her boyfriend. Told the other passenger and the flight attendants that she was pregnant, wanted to sit next to her boyfriend, and said that she needed to be in the aisle seat to get up and stretch and use the bathroom. The other passenger (rightfully) said no. And the boyfriend said nothing. He let his pregnant girlfriend go back to her middle seat, instead of offering her his aisle seat.
Skai got her start singing the “I am stuck on Band-Aid Brand,” jingle in a memorable commercial (see below).
She also appeared in commercials for Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Old Navy.
Skai got her first role in the independent film Liberty Kid (2007). In 2011, she was cast as Zuri Ross in the Disney Channel sitcom Jessie, which aired for four seasons and ended in 2015.
From 2015 to 2018, she reprised the role of Zuri in the series Bunk’d. She was included on Time magazine’s list of “Most Influential Teens” in 2016.
