Lesbian throuple implodes after glamorous younger third wheel accused self-help guru lovers of denying her $3.5m payout she says she was owed

A lesbian throuple who gained millions of fans with their self-help lifestyle tips saw their blossoming romance crumble after their younger third-wheel launched a scathing lawsuit against her former lovers. 

Nicole LePera, 43, and her wife Lauren Galvin, the glamorous influencers behind the popular 'Holistic Psychologist' empire, are facing allegations from their former lover Jenna Weakland over claims they cheated her out of a promised $3.5 million payout. 

Weakland alleges in a lawsuit obtained by the New York Times that she was erased from their brand despite claiming to have been a central figure in its growth. The Holistic Psychologist Instagram currently boasts over 9 million followers. 

But in a counter-suit launched by LePera and Galvin's production company seen by the Daily Mail, the couple claim that Weakland was essentially a customer service agent for the brand after they already built it. 

The clashing lawsuits each allege their glamorous online personas hid abuse and violence, and Weakland claims that LePera threw her down a flight of stairs, per her filing. 

LePera and Galvin deny those claims and allege that Weakland assaulted Galvin and threatened to harm herself and release a damaging tell-all memoir about their lives. 

Weakland was initially hired by the couple in 2019 to help run their online brand, which was growing into one of the most popular psychology and lifestyle businesses on social media. 

LePera and Galvin, who were already married, stunned fans in 2021 when they announced that they had added Weakland into their relationship. 

By the time LePera announced the unconventional 'throuple,' she was one of the most well-known influencers in the mental health and lifestyle space. 

In 2020, Forbes described her as 'radically changing the business of mental health,' and her Holistic Psychologist brand aimed to share unorthodox methods to treat anxiety and depression. 

Weakland joined to help manage the rapidly growing brand and appeared with LePera and Galvin in their content as it expanded into a paid membership service, website and book deals.

What began as a business relationship quickly became romantic. Announcing her marriage had become a 'throuple,' LePera described her situation to fans as a 'three person committed relationship.' 

'It’s expanded me spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. It’s been raw. Terrifying,' she wrote at the time.

'Filled with joy. Filled with tears. Filled with laughs. Filled with so much humbling learning about myself and what it is to be in an authentic relationship.' 

But in LePera's lawsuit, she now frames Weakland joining her marriage as 'working her way into' her relationship with Galvin for financial gain. 

Weakland claims in her lawsuit that she was led to believe she was an equal partner and was promised a one-third stake in the business, however, the pledge was never put in writing.

She claimed that when she later brought up the business dynamic, Galvin began a campaign of 'psychological warfare' against her. 

Weakland was nicknamed 'welfare,' and her 'partners' mocked her background living in poverty from a 'trailer trash family,' according to the lawsuit.

Weakland said when she finally had enough and tried to end the relationship, LePera promised her a $3.5 million payout to settle her claims, the lawsuit alleged. 

She said this alleged offer never materialized, as LePera and Galvin used 'internal bookkeeping gymnastics' to claim they did not owe her anything, the lawsuit claimed. 

She alleged that the mental health-obsessed couple used their own teaching against her, telling her that 'her concerns were mere projections of unresolved personal trauma she had to deal with,' per the filing. 

After moving out of their home in Phoenix, Arizona, Weakland claimed that Galvin began frequently trespassing on her new home as part of an alleged harassment campaign. 

This included repeatedly threatening to send nude videos of Weakland to her closest friends, the lawsuit alleged. 

She alleged that the hostile breakdown of their relationship escalated to LePera shoving Weakland down a flight of stairs, 'landing face-first and sustaining injuries to her ankle and hand,' the lawsuit said. 

Since filing her lawsuit, Weakland has also spoken out about her role in the videos shared to the brand's Instagram.

In one clip, Weakland role-played as LePera's daughter, wearing pigtails and kneeling on the floor as LePera played an emotionally abusive mother. 

While the skit was intended to be an educational performance for fans to know what to do in such a situation, Weakland said she now regrets the odd play-acting. 

'Given the underlying power imbalance of our actual relationship, those just made me feel sick,' she told the New York Times. 

LePera and Galvin have since responded with their own lawsuit, alleging that their former lover was not an equal business partner but a disgruntled employee. 

They claimed that Weakland 'used a combination of deception, coercion, and abuse to first integrate into' their marriage, 'and then into ownership' of their brand. 

Their counter-filing alleged that Weakland used 'threats of exposure of false, defamatory narratives' to bolster her claims, going as far as to threaten to publish a tell-all memoir about LePera, the lawsuit said. 

They also disputed claims that they financially controlled Weakland, and alleged that Weakland used company money to go on $1 million worth of spending sprees. 

The alleged lavish spending included a $20,000 Bahamas vacation, tens of thousands in wire transfers and luxury gifts, the lawsuit states.

The Daily Mail has contacted attorneys for LePera and Galvin, and Weakland for comment.