Nope. It's way more nuanced than you want to paint it. What didn't add up was that he said he wanted to protect the privacy of his family but then blurted out the private information that his wife was a mental case. A lot of information was missing at first, but when it trickled in, it became clear to me that this was the situation:
1. The Lidells were out to a party and returned home early in the morning.
2. An argument ensued which turned physical to some degree.
3. The cops were called.
4. When the cops arrived, they found no physical evidence of a struggle but one or both said there had been a physical altercation.
5. With no physical evidence, they must have blamed each other because the police could not identify the attacker/who started it.
6. They told the Lidells that because they had admitted to a physical incident, they had to take one of them in.
7. At this point Chuck, thinking of the kid/kids, says he will be the one to spare them the trauma of seeing their mother led away in cuffs. (I completely agree with this)
8. He spends the night in jail and the media blows up about it.
9. On his release, he is still hopping mad at his wife and unloads on her on his social media, saying she is completely to blame and has ongoing mental problems. (Which is probably true imo--but not that he doesn't)
And that's the last time I checked in on the story. If you want to dig into my posts and present some contrary evidence (which you should if you are going to wildly accuse people of shit that you "don't remember but...", feel free.