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Actor Brandon Barash Secures Restraining Order Against Ex-Wife Kirsten Storms

4/29/2026

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Barash Secures Restraining Order

Brandon Barash obtained a restraining order against ex-wife Kirsten Storms after a judge approved his Dec 2025 filing.
Barash alleges Storms is in a mental-health crisis with delusions, lacked housing Sep 2024-Jun 2025, faced eviction after an Apr 2024 break-in, and owes a $5,000 loan he gave her.
Storms, who is under supervised visitation, will have the order reviewed by a judge this week and disclosed a brain aneurysm diagnosed Jan 2025 and 2021 surgery.

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Storms Hospitalized

TMZ reported an emergency restraining order on April 27, 2026.
Storms announced on Instagram in October 2025 a brain aneurysm, said in December 2025 she would delay surgery because it was not large enough, claimed cellphone hacking and apartment break-ins, and added a 988 mental-health hotline reminder.
Barash’s wife Isabella helped Storms obtain hospitalization and a hold after the aneurysm was found during a follow-up scan for a brain cyst removed in 2021.

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Historical Context

President Bill Clinton signed the Violence Against Women Act on September 13 1994, allocating $1.6 billion and creating the DOJ’s Office on Violence Against Women after the 1993 Vienna Declaration framed domestic abuse as a human-rights issue. Reauthorized in 2000, 2005, 2013 and 2022, the law underpins court-issued protection orders such as Barash’s 2025 restraining order against actress Kirsten Storms.

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Barash Secures Restraining Order

Brandon Barash obtained a restraining order against ex-wife Kirsten Storms after a judge approved his Dec 2025 filing.
Barash alleges Storms is in a mental-health crisis with delusions, lacked housing Sep 2024-Jun 2025, faced eviction after an Apr 2024 break-in, and owes a $5,000 loan he gave her.
Storms, who is under supervised visitation, will have the order reviewed by a judge this week and disclosed a brain aneurysm diagnosed Jan 2025 and 2021 surgery.

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