In those moments, she described how much the actor made her feel like a “terrible girlfriend” and mentioned that he was supposed to call his ex to ask if she was a good lover.
“Any kind of pleasant daily interaction can result in a three-day event where I get scolded and kept awake,” she recalled. “I think, for me, I started to really isolate myself. So I stopped talking to my friends. I didn’t speak to my family. I was just living a very controlled and contained life that I felt was at least getting me in trouble.”
“I felt so controlled and confused and so discouraged that the fear of leaving and knowing that I had all this work to do to feel good again was completely overwhelming,” she continued.
In addition, the Grammy nominee discussed the moment she received a “big wake-up call” that helped her start to heal and move on with her relationship.
While returning from a trip, the branches of FKA claimed the Fury star was “threatening to crash the car unless I said I loved it.”
She said he “ended up basically strangling me in public at a gas station and nobody did anything. That was a very low moment for me, because I felt they would never believe me”.
Shortly after the alleged incident, the song said it called a toll-free helpline for women who had been abused. After feeling validated over the phone, that was when a light bulb went on, with the branches of the FKA saying it was a “huge wake-up call”.