Komal Rizvi, a popular singer turned actress has recently opened up about her past abusive marriage.
The actress was invited to a talk show, where while specifically shedding light on her marital life, Komal Rizvi, who had moved to Oman after getting married and got divorced in 2019, shared that she has strong backing, “By that I mean a lot of supporters such as my brother and parents who have helped me through this journey.”
She continued, “It does not matter if you are independent, strong, or even educated when you encounter a mentally ill person with whom you are destined to spend the rest of your life. “
She explained that she was married for six years where she found herself to be helpless. “I was physically abused and went to bed on an empty stomach for months because I didn’t have allowance to even eat,” Rizvi added.
Rizvi added that a string of factors restricted her from working in Oman. “I was living for four years with him and the only way I could do something for myself was to give tuitions to earn. Later, I learned how to cook and that became the way for me to earn. I would sell my food at stores in order to survive an abusive marriage.”
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“The first time he hit me with a soda bottle and pushed me. I developed a bruise around my eye and when my parents noticed it they immediately wanted me to come back home,” she further added.
She then added that she spoke to her aunt, who is a psychiatrist, and asked her that she can’t believe that having such a high IQ how did she become like this? “She told me that it’s not about IQ and said that intelligent women tend to stay longer in abusive marriages because they try to rationalize the acts of their abuser,” she asserted.
