Staying sturdy. Jana Kramer opened up about surviving an abusive relationship from her previous — and the way far she’s come alongside the way in which.
“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, Kramer, 38, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, October 1, alongside a throwback photo of herself and her mother, Noah Kramer. “But when I look at this photo … 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.”
While Kramer didn’t identify her alleged abuser, she beforehand opened up about accusing her first husband, Michel Gambino, of bodily and emotional abuse.
The One Tree Hill alum’s message additionally got here with a clip of her 2017 speech at Safe Horizon’s twenty second Annual Champion Awards.
“It started with little comments here and there,” she alleged in her speech on the time, once more refusing to call her abuser however confirming that she “married” him. “Then it started with more verbal abuse. And then it started with a push or a shove. And then it became a choke.” She added, “Once my abuser was in jail, I was finally able to be set free.”
Kramer and Gambino met in 2004 and tied the knot after simply two weeks of courting. The “Whine Down” podcast host filed for divorce lower than a yr later. Gambino was ultimately convicted of premeditated tried homicide. After he served 5 years in jail and was launched on parole in 2010, the nation crooner stated she lived in concern till her ex died by suicide in 2012.
“I felt bad because my first feeling was relief that he was gone, that I didn’t have to worry about him anymore,” the “I Got the Boy” singer defined throughout an look on Good Morning America in 2014 about her relationship with Gambino. “I felt sad that I couldn’t change his life.”
In Saturday’s Instagram publish, the Michigan native recalled feeling “so full of shame” and “like I had no one,” pondering that “no one would believe her” if she got here ahead.
“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,” she claimed. “One of the hardest rocks I threw into the stream [was] ‘I deserve abuse’ because for so long that’s what I thought. I held onto that for years thinking that was true. That’s what I was made to believe.”
The Entourage alum added that she speaks out to “help others and to hopefully help at least one person who is reading this to talk to someone,” noting that “no one” deserves abuse.
“Physically, sexually, mentally, verbally, financially, emotionally abusive relationships etc. THAT IS ALL ABUSE,” she shared. “There are people who want to be there for you. That are there for you. Please don’t wait until you lose your breath.”
Kramer married Johnathon Schaech in July 2010, however they separated a month later. The divorce was finalized in June 2011. She then received engaged to nation singer Brantley Gilbert, however they cut up in August 2013.
In May 2015, the entertainer wed Mike Caussin. The couple welcomed the primary baby, daughter Jolie, in January 2016 and a son, Jace, two years later. The pair referred to as it quits for good in 2021 after the previous NFL star, 35, admitted to dishonest on Kramer with a number of girls. In 2019, the athlete revealed that he had a intercourse habit. The “Why Ya Wanna” artist has additionally been linked to Scott Eastwood, Jay Cutler, Ian Schinelli and Gleb Savchenko.
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