'The abuse was not violent at first...”
The actress then claimed that the first incident of physical violence occurred five months into their relationship when he allegedly threw a smoothie at her face. She never told anyone about it, as she didn't want it to happen again or admit that she was being abused.
"I learned what it felt like to be pinned down and slapped repeatedly, punched so hard the wind was knocked out of me, dragged by my hair across pavement, head-butted, pinched until my skin broke, shoved into a wall so hard the drywall broke, choked," she revealed, adding that she learned how to lock herself in rooms but quickly stopped because"the door was inevitably broken down" and she learned not to value property or"myself.
She then went on to describe the aftermath of the violent incidents, which included an apology from her partner and her laying in the bathtub while he regained his composure. At one point, she claims, she became violent in order to fight back. The breaking point came when he threw an iPhone at her face, allegedly tearing her iris to the point where it nearly ruptured her eyeball, broke her nose and gave her a fat lip.
"This was too far and I couldn't flush this story down with the tug of the drain," she said, explaining that they had to make up a story about how she fell and hit her face on a potted plant. She would go on to share the false story during anShe finally called things off her partner and started to confide in a friend."None of this is salacious news, it was my reality. What I went through caused a tectonic shift in my outlook on life.
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