Wade Wilson's Ex-Girlfriend Breaks Silence on TikTok: 'Police Failed Me'

The ex-girlfriend of Wade Wilson, the tattoo-covered Flordia man who is facing the death penalty for brutally murdering two women in 2019, says he was never violent towards her — until he allegedly tried to kill her.

Kelly Matthews has spoken out on TikTok about dating Wilson after they met online in 2018. She told Newsweek on Friday that Wilson allegedly called her last year but she blocked the jail's number.

In a video posted last week, Matthews shared "thirst trap" photos of a "charismatic and smart" smiling Wilson from around that time and without his face tattoos, which now include two swastikas.

But Matthews says Wilson's polite demeanor began to shift when he started using cocaine. She says they once got into a fight when she took his bookbag to search it for drugs. He kicked a door and she threw a kitchen table at him.

"He never hit me, ever, until that night," Matthews said in the TikTok video. "So there were really no red flags 'till the end."

In a recent interview with Fox 4, Matthews recalled the events of February 18, 2019, when Wilson's alleged abuse nearly resulted in her death. She said that Wilson had agreed to go to a nearby rehab but then changed his mind and wanted to go to one in the Florida Keys, which was about three and a half hours away from where they lived. They got into a fight in a parking lot when Matthews suggested that Wilson was lying, and really wanted to go the Keys to meet someone down there

"I got back in the car, put my seatbelt on and that is when he started choking me," Matthews told the outlet. "He choked me two or three times. I started to black out, I was freaking out."

She claimed Wilson pushed her on the floorboard of her car, cut off her clothes with a knife, and told her to stay down there until he put her in the back of the car and allegedly sexually assaulted her.

"At some point, he bit my face, bit me in the chin," she said, showing off the pictures from the alleged attack in a June 15 TikTok, which included a photo of her "busted lip." Matthews also claimed he gagged her, tied a shirt around her face, and tied her hands and feet together with a used garbage bag inside the car.

Eventually, Wilson reportedly freed Matthews before they got to the Keys, handed her the car keys, and then got into another car with a woman. Matthews said she "went 100 mph the whole way home" and went straight to the police to explain what happened.

In the TikTok posted on June 15, Matthews claimed the hospital took over 200 photos of her alleged abuse, but she has never seen them and was never able to locate them. A police officer reportedly told her that he went down to the Keys and spoke to Wilson about the incident, and he told her that Matthews was sexually "was into that kind of thing." He was never arrested for anything related to Matthews' alleged assault.

"This man drove through a McDonald's while I was tied up in the back of my car, naked, bound and gagged. Literally, I had a shirt tied around my face. I had leggings in my mouth. My foot was broken because he slammed it in the door. So when I heard the trial of him doing that to Christina Melton, tying her up with her own clothes, it brought back a lot of feelings for me," she said about one of Wilson's two dead victims.

Matthews says the police "failed me so severely" by not arresting Wilson and believes Melton and Diane Ruiz's murders, allegedly by the hands of Wilson, could have been prevented if the detective in her case had "actually done his job."

"I think these women would still be alive because I would have testified against him for this. My whole family, all my friends, everyone would have stood up for this. And this detective basically said 'you were into that kind of thing so, we can't really do anything about it.'"

A judge will decide whether Wilson will get the death penalty or spend life in prison on July 23.

Wilson, 30, was convicted on June 12 of killing Kristine Melton, 35, and Diane Ruiz, 43, within hours of each other back in October 2019. On Tuesday, jurors recommended Wilson should be executed for his crimes, causing "silent tears" to fall from the eyes of the victims' families.

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