Emma Roberts' 2013 Arrest Over Alleged Attack On Evan Peters Resurfaces Ahead Of AHS Reunion

A 2013 hotel-room arrest involving Emma Roberts has resurfaced as fans prepare for the forthcoming American Horror Story reunion, reopening questions about a long-ago domestic incident and how Hollywood remembers past controversies.

Emma Roberts' arrest on 7 July 2013, after Montreal police were called to a hotel where her then-boyfriend Evan Peters was reportedly found with a bloody nose, has returned to public attention amid renewed interest in Roberts and Peters as recurring faces of the American Horror Story franchise.

The incident, which resulted in Roberts being detained and later released without charge, was described at the time by the couple's representatives as 'an unfortunate incident and misunderstanding.' The resurfacing of those reports has prompted fresh examination of the facts, contemporaneous primary accounts, and the couple's statements to the press.

Police Response and The Original Reports

Montreal police were dispatched to a downtown hotel in the early hours of 7 July 2013 after another guest reported an argument; officers found injuries and detained a female occupant before releasing her several hours later when the injured party declined to press charges.

That timeline and those basic facts were first reported by TMZ, which cited law-enforcement sources on scene; mainstream outlets subsequently quoted a Montreal police spokesman who confirmed that one person had been arrested and later released. These contemporaneous reports form the factual backbone of the case record as it exists in public reporting.

Even so, crucial details remained contested in real time: some accounts alleged a bite mark and a bloodied nose; other sources close to the pair insisted both parties had been involved in the scuffle and that the arrest reflected the visible injuries rather than an allegation of unilateral violence.

The absence of criminal charges and the fact that the alleged victim declined to pursue the matter contributed to the rapid closing of the police matter, but not, critics say, to a resolution of public curiosity.

The Couple's Statement and Media Interviews

Roberts and Peters issued a joint statement to entertainment outlets saying: 'It was an unfortunate incident and misunderstanding. Ms. Roberts was released after questioning and the couple are working together to move past it.'

That statement, widely republished by media outlets, is the primary public response from their representatives and remains the clearest contemporaneous record of the pair's position. That joint statement was accepted at the time by many mainstream outlets as the definitive account of the couple's public posture.

Independent interviews and feature profiles from the same year supply additional context. In its August 2013 feature, Nylon published an interview with Roberts in which she reflected candidly on youthful mistakes, a remark that later outlets highlighted for its apparent prescience.

Context, Career Trajectory, and Public Memory

At the time of the incident Roberts and Peters were rising names: both were soon to appear in the third season of Ryan Murphy's anthology, American Horror Story: Coven. The subsequent arc of their relationship, engagement in late 2013 and an on-again/off-again pattern before a final split in 2019, has been documented by outlets that reported contemporaneous responses and subsequent developments.

Those timelines matter because they show how an incident that did not lead to charges nonetheless sat within a public relationship narrative that continued for years.

The resurfacing of the 2013 report ahead of the current AHS reunion underlines two realities: first, that archival news incidents can re-enter public discourse when those involved return to a shared franchise; and second, that the passage of time and the absence of legal proceedings complicate how audiences interpret past allegations.

As the American Horror Story reunion draws renewed attention to both actors, the episode from Montreal remains a factual episode in their shared history, recorded by contemporaneous reporting, commented on by the actors' representatives, and left unresolved in criminal terms.