Self-help guru Nicole LePeras throuple falls apart as lover says she was abused then cut out of $3.5M empire: suit

There’s throuple in paradise.The married self-help influencers behind the popular “Holistic Psychologist” empire preached peace and trauma recovery while boasting about their “throuple” lifestyle to millions of followers — until the third wheel in their relationship sued, claiming she was abused and cheated out of a fortune.Clinical psychologist Nicole LePera, 43, and her spouse Lauren Galvin — creators of a mega-popular Instagram account and numerous books — are being sued by their former lover, Jenna Weakland, who claims she was erased from the brand and denied a $3.5 million payday when their Phoenix-area love nest fell apart.Weakland alleged that she was instrumental to building the Holistic Psychologist brand — which boasts more than 9 million followers on Instagram alone.She claimed she was bullied by her lovers and that LaPera threw her down the stairs in a moment of violence, according to the suit.LePera and Galvin counter-sued and alleged that their ex assaulted Galvin, blew $1 million in fraudulent spending and sowed chaos into their lives while being little more than a customer service agent for the brand.They also said Weakland threatened to harm herself and pen a tell-all memoir to extort millions from them.Both parties categorically denied the other’s accusations after their throuple fell through — but it wasn’t always so fraught.The trio started out as co-workers in 2019, with LePera and Galvin hiring Weakland to help run their “The Holistic Psychologist,” which had exploded from a series of popular psychology books to a subscription-based online community called “The Circle.”But Weakland gradually began to take a central role in the company’s self-help content, appearing with LePera on podcasts and videos while turning her own social media into an outpost for the self-help brand.And by 2021 things had taken a dramatic turn — LePera announced on Instagram that she and her wife were in a full-blown relationship with...