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The California doctor who became gravely ill and nearly died when his wife spiked his hot lemonade with liquid Drano describes the daily torture including the one time he denied her a massage and he said , 'she stepped on my head until I did it.'

The violent act would be the start of years of emotional, and verbal torment Dr. Jack Chen, 53, endured from his dermatologist wife Yue 'Emily' Yu, according to court documents and Chen's attorney Steven Heittelman who spoke with DailyMail.com. 

According to Heittelman, Chen planted a nanny cam in the kitchen of their Irvine, California home after he grew suspicious that his wife of 11 years was poisoning him with a toxic, chemical substance used to unclog drains.

The lawyer said that Chen was the first person he told and he urged him to report the heinous act to the authorities. 

Heittelman said the first time he spoke with Chen was sometime after July 18 when Chen told him that his wife tried to poison him and handed him video evidence of the heinous act. 

After watching the shocking video Heittleman described Yu as 'very methodical,' and said it was 'just unnerving to actually see it.'

 'It is very intimate to commit murder to know what her husband's patterns and preferences are and seamlessly introduce poison into his routine,' he said.

Chen a radiologist said that he and Yu started dating in 2011 and married a year later and had two children, a daughter, now 8 and a son, 7. 

It was early into their courtship when he saw his wife's rage and erratic behavior begin to emerge. 

'After the children were born I became concerned about Emily's behavior. Not only was she was very demanding of me that I give her massages, one time when I could not because I was sick she stepped on my head until I did it,' according to the court documents.

He added: '[She] also began hiding money from me.'

Chen said, Yu along with his mother-in-law, Yuqin 'Amy' Gu,  started abusing their children named Lauren and Ryan, when they were as young as two-years-old. 

He said the children were screamed at, slapped, insulted and deprived of sleep, and locked in their rooms. 

Yu would commonly use a Chinese phrase towards the kids that means 'go die!' 

She would tell the children, according to court documents to 'your head is sick,' 'go f*** yourself,' 'stupid a*******,' and 'get the f*** out of my way.'

He said the children learned early on that 'Emily's rule is everything.'

'Emily's parenting if you could call it that revolves around yelling, insulting, verbally abusing, hitting, pushing, pulling and being emotionally abusive,' he wrote.

Chen said that Yu tried to turn the children against him.  'If our children knew let Emily know that they enjoyed spending time with me, or showed affection toward me

He said his mother-in-law was in on it too. She'd tell me'  'I act like a thug,' and 'I don't act like a man,' he shared in the court documents.

 'Emily would called me a f*** a******, and other insults,' he said. 'Currently she minimizes my existence by telling the children in front of me 'tell him' to do something for them without addressing me. She would have the children do menial tasks for her like getting a piece of tissue for her.' 

Then things grew increasingly worse.

In July, Chen grew suspicious that Yu may be poisoning him.

Hittelman said that he set up a nanny camera in the kitchen and caught his wife pouring Drano into his hot lemonade.

The lawyer called Yu's actions very 'methodical.'  

 'She knew his morning routine,' he said.

On July 11 the first time video he caught her pouring the liquid Drano into his hot lemonade that was the day

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