Jana Kramer Remembers Escaping Alleged Abuser From Previous Relationship

Staying sturdy. Jana Kramer opened up about surviving an abusive relationship from her previous — and the way far she’s come alongside the best way. 

“I don’t bear in mind the reasons that I informed individuals after I flew house to flee my abuser concerning the cuts and scrapes on my shoulder and arms, or why my ribs had been hurting, Kramer, 38, wrote by way of Instagram on Saturday, October 1, alongside a throwback photograph of herself and her mom, Noah Kramer. “However after I take a look at this photograph … I see a damaged lady who was weeks prior pinned to the bottom whereas the person that ‘cherished’ me was strangling me saying that he was going kill me.” 

Whereas Kramer didn’t title 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 Secure Horizon’s twenty second Annual Champion Awards.

“It began with little feedback right 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 began with extra verbal abuse. After which it began with a push or a shove. After which it grew to become a choke.” She added, “As soon as my abuser was in jail, I used to be lastly in a position to be let out.”

Kramer and Gambino met in 2004 and tied the knot after simply two weeks of relationship. The “Whine Down” podcast host filed for divorce lower than a yr later. Gambino was finally convicted of premeditated tried homicide. After he served 5 years in jail and was launched on parole in 2010, the nation crooner mentioned she lived in concern till her ex died by suicide in 2012.

“I felt dangerous as a result of my first feeling was reduction that he was gone, that I didn’t have to fret about him anymore,” the “I Received the Boy” singer defined throughout an look on Good Morning America in 2014 about her relationship with Gambino. “I felt unhappy that I couldn’t change his life.”

In Saturday’s Instagram put up, the Michigan native recalled feeling “so filled with disgrace” and “like I had nobody,” pondering that “nobody would imagine her” if she got here ahead. 

“To be sincere it’s been a journey and one I’m nonetheless attempting to stroll by realizing that wasn’t the final abusive relationship,” she claimed. “One of many hardest rocks I threw into the stream [was] ‘I deserve abuse’ as a result of for therefore 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 Entourage alum added that she speaks out to “assist others and to hopefully assist at the very least one one who is studying this to speak to somebody,” noting that “nobody” deserves abuse. 

“Bodily, sexually, mentally, verbally, financially, emotionally abusive relationships and so on. THAT IS ALL ABUSE,” she shared. “There are individuals who need to be there for you. Which might be there for you. Please don’t wait till 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 Could 2015, the entertainer wed Mike Caussin. The couple welcomed the primary little one, daughter Jolie, in January 2016 and a son, Jace, two years later. The pair known as it quits for good in 2021 after the previous NFL star, 35, admitted to dishonest on Kramer with a number of ladies. In 2019, the athlete revealed that he had a intercourse dependancy. The “Why Ya Wanna” artist has additionally been linked to Scott Eastwood, Jay Cutler, Ian Schinelli and Gleb Savchenko.