On an episode of TV One’s “Uncensored, Americas Top Model Tyra Banks opens up about some of the judgments she held about women who remained in toxic, relationships. But it's deeper than that!
Tyra goes on to say that she didn’t understand the mental bondage that made women stay with abusive men, until she was wrapped up in a terrible relationship situation herself.
She says in her segment:
“I remember being kind of judgmental for women that were in bad relationships. And I’m just like, “Get out. Come on, like what are you doing, leave him, I don’t get it. Until I experienced it myself. I was in a relationship for many years, and we probably broke up fourteen/fifteen times. There were things that he said and made me feel like, I couldn’t leave, or if I left I had to go back. He told me that that is what he does. That he knows how to break a woman down. And it took so many different friends and family for me to finally say goodbye to him.”
She further stated the following:
“He never hit me, but I would say there were blows to my spirit, blows to my emotional well-being every day,” she told Ms. O.
“He was a master at being able to be happy and nice to everybody else but whispering these negative things to me,” she said. “I’d start complaining to my friends, and they’re like: ‘Well, he’s fine, girl. He’s fine with us. Everything’s fine.'”
Tyra finally made the decision to leave after confronting herself and her insecurities. And she has forever changed her opinion on women who choose to stay.