Puka Nacua is back on the football field.
After he checked into a luxury treatment center in Malibu in March followingallegations he bit a woman while drunk on New Year’s Eve, Nacua is currently taking part in the Rams’ voluntary offseason workouts — which began Monday — at their Woodland Hills training facility.
While Nacua’s lawyer Levi McCathern said the move was not a direct response to the lawsuit from Nacua’s bite accuser, Madison Atiabi, filed against him late last month, the lawyer did say “the combination of stories ya’ll have run is certainly a contributing factor.”
“He was in there a substantial period of time before any of these allegations broke with Madison,” McCathern said in early April, “and he’s scheduled to be there for a while longer.”
The restraining order request that was filed against Nacua by Atiabi earlier this year was formally dismissed last week.
At a hearing in a Los Angeles County courtroom, Atiabi’s attorney, Joseph Kar, told Judge Debra R. Archuleta that he and his client wanted to drop the petition they submitted against Nacua on March 24.
“We understand Mr. Nacua is in rehabilitation at a facility for drug and alcohol rehabilitation,” said Kar, who appeared at the proceedings remotely. “At this time, we don’t want to pursue the petition.”
Kar added that he and Nacua’s representatives had been in contact about the matter.
Archuleta then announced to the courtroom the case “will be dismissed without prejudice,” meaning Atiabi can refile at a later date.
Nacua is coming off a career season where he emerged as arguably the best wide receiver in football.
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