Shortly after condemning violence against women, it’s come to light that “Catfish” star Nev Schulman punched a female student while attending Sarah Lawrence College in 2006.

During the spring of his junior year, the television personality, now 29, attended a dance at the Bronxville college called the Sleaze Ball (which Schulman describes as “a night of debauchery, drugs, and girls dressed primarily in lingerie” in his newly released book, “In Real Life: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age”).

Schulman claims he was taking photos of the festivities before coming to blows with a female attendee:

While I was photographing, an individual who didn’t like that I was taking pictures attempted to tackles me and smash my camera on the ground. Since the camera was attached to a strap around my neck, I found myself in a very unpleasant situation, much like a dog with a choke collar. In an effort to free myself, I punched the person and ran off; when I returned minutes later, I discovered that the short, stocky, crew-cut-styled individual I’d fought with was a woman – a fact that I hadn’t been aware of in the heat of the moment. The next thing I knew, I’d been arrested.

But a source, who attended the event at Sarah Lawrence College, says Schulman’s recollection is inaccurate.

“Nev stuck his camera in the face of two girls kissing and was sort of taking a picture and she shoved the camera away. He was very angry about this and he just decks her,” the source told Page Six on Tuesday.

Schulman writes that there were heavy consequences because of the incident (word of which has been circulating online since 2010):

The case was dismissed almost immediately, but Sarah Lawrence took to the opportunity to toss me out once and for all. I never even finished my junior year. My attitude was, ‘Never mind. No big deal. I had it coming.’ It didn’t matter much to me. But my mom was crushed. She’d already put her neck out for me more times that I could count, and now I was hurting her legacy at the school she loved so much. I’d finally screwed up so badly that it ended her relationship with Sarah Lawrence for good.

On Monday night, the co-host of the MTV series “Catfish” joined in on the Ray Rice discussion by posting a photo of himself in an elevator, claiming that it was abuse free.

https://twitter.com/NevSchulman/status/509170612980293632

The post became an immediate object of derision on the Internet, with several people poking fun at Schulman’s strange message. But while some found the gesture to be clumsy, others felt it was hypocritical. On Tuesday evening, Schulman released a statement that said his intention was to “raise awareness.”

“In college, I was in a situation where I was forced to defend myself, after being suddenly attacked. Charges were brought, but my case was almost immediately dismissed as this was clearly a case of self-defense. My post was meant to raise awareness and support for everyone affected by the awful abuses of domestic violence,” Schulman said.

Earlier that morning, Jezebel.com pointed out that the incident had long been rumored but never confirmed.

Previously the reason for Schulman’s departure from the school was unclear, and a New York magazine profile of him and his brother, “Paranormal Activity 3” director Ariel Schulman, from the time of the movie’s release, stated that he had dropped out. But our source maintains that Schulman’s account is far from the truth.

“There’s Nev’s version, which to be honest, I think is bulls—t … He f—king hit her. He sort off winded up and boom,” the source explained.

But an insider close to Schulman, who was dancing with him before the altercation took place, claims he was attacked at the dance where “girls dress as boys, boys dress as girls.”

“I saw somebody with a white button down shirt, a black tie, attack him. This person probably had a good 30 or 40 lbs. on him. We both thought it was a man,” the insider explained.

After the punch was thrown and the pair left the dance, the insider says that Schulman was “really nervous because the guy has his faults, [while at Sarah Lawrence College] he was on disciplinary probation. He was really really worried. We decided to both walk back in so he could explain his side of the story.

“In the cafeteria, there were these bright lights, we see the person with an ice bag over their forehead. It took me a good five minutes to realize [it] was a woman. He had no idea it was a girl.”

As for why the incident, which took place eight years ago, is only being revealed now, the insider says it’s because the alleged victim’s story is spotty.

“This person doesn’t really have anything to stand by it,” she said. “The idea of him hitting a woman intentionally is just outrageous.”

But the original source suspects that the story is just now making waves as a PR stunt for Schulman’s book.

“Nev is crazy, but he’s not stupid,” the source says. “A bunch of us think he may have done it on purpose … in his book he directly addresses it. The opinion of the smarter people I know is he tweeted [the Ray Rice-related photo] knowing … I mean it’s Sarah Lawrence, do you know how many editors are from Sarah Lawrence, like what does he expect to happen? So I do wonder about that.”

MTV has declined to comment.