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Jana Kramer is exhibiting her assist for home violence consciousness month with a robust assertion about her personal expertise.
As it’s possible you’ll already know, the One Tree Hill alum’s first husband Michael Gambino was convicted of tried homicide after he strangled the singer into unconsciousness. He was launched from jail in 2010 and died by suicide two years later. In 2016 she spoke to People in a candid interview the place she defined how “ashamed” she had been of her abuse:
“I was so ashamed… I literally walked around on eggshells, terrified to tell anybody, because I was so ashamed of the situation I had put myself in. I was like, ‘I put myself in this and now I have to figure out how to get out of it, or stay in it and make it better.’”
So terrible…
Since then, although, Jana has been vocal about her love life and all of the horrible issues she’s gone by — and he or she’s obsessed with sharing her experiences to assist others.
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In an Instagram put up over the weekend, the I Got The Boy musician shared a photograph of herself and her mom when she was only a teen. She sat on her mother’s lap and the 2 smiled on the digicam, however within the caption she reveals the second wasn’t as comfortable because it appears on the floor:
“This is a very hard photo for me to look at. One might look at this and see two smiling faces. A daughter with her mom. But what was under the smile is something that I still to this day have a hard time talking about. I don’t remember the excuses that I told people when I flew home to escape my abuser about the cuts and scrapes on my shoulder and arms, or why my ribs were hurting.”
It actually goes to indicate you may by no means know what somebody goes by simply by how they seem.
Continuing, the actress tells of a second the place her ex advised her he was going to “kill” her:
“But when I look at this photo that’s all I see. I see a broken girl who was weeks prior pinned to the ground while the man that ‘loved’ me was strangling me saying that he was going kill me. I was so full of shame. I was made to feel like I had no one, and no one would believe me and that the reason I would be choked or hit was because I was bad. That I was wrong and I deserved it.”
Ugh, simply horrible. Poor lady…
The 38-year-old says someday “soon” she plans to talk extra on her abuse — however for now she desires everybody to know she’s lastly let go of the idea she deserves any of this remedy after a number of abusive relationships:
“For years I have held on to those beliefs and one day soon I will speak more on the abuse that followed that one and the patterns that continued, but to be honest it’s been a journey and one I’m still trying to walk through knowing that wasn’t the last abusive relationship…. One of the hardest rocks I threw into the stream when I was at on-site was the rock “I deserve abuse” as a result of for thus lengthy that’s what I assumed. I held onto that for years pondering that was true. That’s what I used to be made to imagine.”
The Christmas in Mississippi star goes on to inform readers they don’t need to be abused in any method and encourages them to achieve out to assets such because the social service Safe Horizon in the event that they need assistance:
“I speak out to help others and to hopefully help at least one person who is reading this to talk to someone. YOU DO NOT DESERVE ABUSE. You do not deserve any form of abuse…physically, sexually, mentally, verbally, financial, emotionally abusive relationships etc. THAT IS ALL ABUSE. There are people who want to be there for you. That are there for you. Please don’t wait until you lose your breath. Your life, Your heart, your soul is meant to be here and is meant to be loved and cherished. I am linking in my bio a place to find help. @safehorizon and so many places are there for you. Please talk to someone. #domesticviolenceawarenessmonth #domesticviolence”
Ch-ch-check out the complete put up (beneath):
Jana is really so courageous for telling her story, we hope she by no means has to face such horrible abuse once more.
If you or a cherished one is experiencing home violence, assist will be discovered by calling 800-799-7233 or texting START to 88788. Additional assets will be discovered at https://www.thehotline.org/.
[Image via Jana Kramer/Instagram/California Department of Corrections.]
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