Jake and Logan Paul claim their “menace” father was “abusive” toward them growing up — but Greg Paul views it differently.
“Our parents were really strict and mainly my dad — it was always Logan and I against him,” Jake says in the Netflix documentary “Untold: Jake Paul the Problem Child,” which premiered Tuesday, before his brother downplays the accusations.
“Holy s–t. Yo, Greg Paul is a f–king being. He’s a menace. That guy’s intense,” Logan responds.
“Jake may throw around the word ‘abusive.’ I prefer not quite legal.”
But Jake further claims that his dad would “slap the s–t out of” him.
“I don’t resent it. I’m understanding of why he did that — that’s all he knew,” Jake, 26, explains in the episode.
However, the YouTube stars’ father denies physically abusing his sons and instead insists he made his kids “better.”
“I never laid hands on my kids. And I did tell him, I said, ‘Jake, I did pick you up and throw you on a couch couple times.’ [He said], ‘Well, I was afraid of you.’ I’m like, ‘That’s what the f–k dads are supposed to do,’” Greg explains.
“Somebody comes in here, they start harassing everybody and smacking around an old lady — do you want a couple Greg Pauls in the room or do you want some f–king fairy f–k, whiny little bitch who’s gonna sit there and talk about emotions? Who do you want in the room?”
Despite leveling abuse accusations against his father, Jake credits Greg, 59, for his success.
“He was so hard and so tough on us that my brother and I’s imaginations really started to flare up,” Jake says. “So one day we get a camera, and we just start filming our lives.”
Eventually, the pair began fighting on- and offline and found themselves embroiled in public scandals.
Jake was accused of sexual assault by TikTok star Justine Paradise in 2021, though he vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
And in 2020, the “Airplane Mode” star was charged for being part of a “riot” in which looters stormed an Arizona mall.
“It was easy to pick me apart. It became a thing to hate Jake Paul,” he says in the Netflix anthology series. “It’s not easy to be hated by the whole entire world.”
Eventually, the Paul family became concerned for Jake’s well-being.
“Jake’s always been pretty emotionally unpredictable and volatile,” Logan, 28, says. “There was a point where we were both legitimately concerned that Jake was going to kill himself.
“He needs purpose,” Logan adds, which was part of Jake’s inspiration for getting into boxing.
Netflix’s “Untold” returns later this month with episodes about Johnny Manziel, Victor Conte and the Florida Gators.
