Terrence Howard has had a rough couple of months, but looked cool when we snapped him in Soho last night (December 28). Terrence has been dealing with verbal attacks from his estranged wife Michelle Ghent, as well as getting a restraining order filed against him. Now he’s responding back and he said his race is involved. Eonline.com Reports:

According to court docs filed Friday and obtained by E! news, the 42-year-old thesp claimed his erstwhile missus (whom he notes is not African-American) often referred to him using the N-word and screamed other racist names at him like “monkey.”
The former Crash star (who, ironically, played Nelson Mandela in the movie Winnie earlier this year) asserted that his 34-year-old spouse, whom he married in secret in January 2010, once yelled that she “never wanted to marry a n—-r in the first place” and “didn’t want to be the stepmother of some n—-r kids.”

He also claimed Ghent once said had “a lot of Russian friends” who would have him “clipped” if he ever went to authorities.
Ghent filed for divorce last February after only a year of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.

But it wasn’t obvious just how ugly things had gotten between the two until Ghent took out a temporary restraining order on Dec. 6, claiming Howrard had routinely abused her and threatened to kill her.

Howard, who’s not allowed to go within 100 yards of Ghent until their next court hearing on Jan. 17, rebutted the charges in court papers, denying he ever laid a hand on her and contending blackmail, saying she threatened to go public with “private materials” unless he paid her money.

This isn’t the first charge against Howard for physical violence. In 2001 he was arrested on domestic violence charges against his former wife, Lori McCommas. The couple divorced after he plead guilty to disturbing the peace and now it looks like things aren’t fairing so well with his current relationship.