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Noelle Clough's Husband Was So Upset About a Cosmo Magazine Quiz That He Asked Her to Stab Him. She Did

Have you ever been so upset about a quiz in Cosmo magazine that you just wanted someone to stab you?We're not sure what the answer to that is, but police say that's what Noelle Clough's husband did on Sunday.Sure enough, Clough, 22, complied with her husband's request and stabbed him,...
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Have you ever been so upset about a quiz in Cosmo magazine that you just wanted someone to stab you?

We're not sure what the answer to that is, but police say that's what Noelle Clough's husband did on Sunday.

Sure enough, Clough, 22, complied with her husband's request and stabbed him, according to court documents obtained by New Times.

Mesa police got the call around 4 a.m. Sunday, when Clough said her husband was cut in the back, and needed stitches.

Clough told a dispatcher that her husband was choking her, so she pulled a knife on him before telling the dispatcher to "take me away."

Sure enough, police arrived and found Clough's husband had a cut on his back, but Clough told a slightly different story to the cops after they arrived.

Aside from telling police she was a "monster" -- and her requesting a few times that the cops to shoot her -- Clough told police a story that didn't include choking, but did include Cosmo magazine.

According to the documents, Clough said she and her husband were drinking for a "long period" before the fight broke out, and the cause of that fight was a quiz in the magazine.

That quiz then sparked a more specific argument on ex-lovers, Clough said, before her husband threw a pair of knives on the floor and said, "There is the knife; stab me."

The two argued a little more. Clough said that as she tried to cut him with the knife while he was walking a way, she accidentally stabbed him, according to the documents.

The Mesa police officer writes in his report that he asked Clough if she'd been assaulted before she stabbed her husband, and she said her husband did not.

While Clough was in the back of the patrol car en route to jail, Clough reverted to her initial story, that her husband had choked her during the Cosmo argument.

The officer notes Clough didn't have any visible injuries.

Clough was jailed on one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.


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