Last Tuesday, former two-division UFC champion B.J. Penn appeared in court where a Hawaiian judge ordered him to vacate the home he shares with his 79-year old mother, Lorraine Shin. The judge also extended the protective order against Penn brought by Shin until Nov. 23.
Two days later, on Thursday, Penn was detained for violating the retraining order.
Penn was arrested last month and changed with ‘abuse of a family or household member.’ Days later he was arrested for the same changes. Within the same week, “The Prodigy” was detained again for failure to appear.
Penn believes that his family has been murdered and replaced by imposters in an effort to steal his assets. In court on last Friday, Penn told the judge that Shin was not his family and questioned why the case was in criminal family court.
Shin believes Penn is suffering from a condition called apgras delusional syndrome and wants him to be court ordered to get ‘medical treatment or other source of therapy.’
“I believe my son [B.J. Penn] is suffering from Capgras delusional syndrome (a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, other close family member has been replaced by an identical imposter). He believes I’m an imposter who has killed his family to gain control of the family assets,” she wrote in a statement following her son’s May 25th arrest.
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“In the best interest for my safety, I ask the court for a six month [temporary restraining order] and have my son ordered to get medical treatment or other source of therapy.”
Penn broke his silence on Sunday and explained how to beat a mental health test.
“Mental health test my ass,” Penn wrote on Instagram. “You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to pass a mental health exam. To beat a mental health exam just don’t say that you’re depressed and feel like committing suicide or that you drink every day or do substances every day.and “BOOM” you’re not crazy.”
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Penn once held the UFC lightweight and welterweight titles. He was inducted in the UFC Hall of Fame in 2015. He last fought in May 2019, losing to Clay Guida by unanimous decision.
