LOVE Island star Georgia Harrison has revealed shocking details of the abuse she suffered in a previous relationship, including being spat on and pushed out of a moving car.
In an emotional interview on We Need To Talk with Paul C Brunson on Tuesday, the 30-year-old reality star said an early relationship left her deeply traumatised, both emotionally and physically.
Georgia Harrison opened up on Paul C Brunson’s podcast We Need To Talk[/caption]
The Love Island star and influencer spoke out about abuse in a past relationship[/caption]
“He’d like hold me face down on a bed, where he’d spit in my face,” she recalled.
“He once kicked me out of a moving car, was moving slow, but it was still really traumatic.
“I was really bruised from the experience.”
The abuse extended to emotional manipulation and verbal degradation, Georgia said.
“The emotional abuse would be because he knew I’d never been naked with other men and stuff like that.
“He’d always say, ‘you might think you’re good-looking with your clothes on and all boys do, but actually you’re disgusting, like naked.’
“Anything you can imagine that you could say to someone, he would say to me.
“And I would then start to believe it,” she added.
“I would get in trouble for speaking to certain people, going certain places.
“I just felt completely and utterly trapped. Those abusive relationships, they shape how you see yourself.
“And it’s really hard to ever shake that off.”
Paul asked how Georgia how she broke free from that abusive relationship.
She replied: “It was really hard but eventually I moved away… thats when I started to realise that with the right support around me and being away from that person.
“I could slowly build myself up because actually in that relationship I felt isolated, I felt like if I ever spoke to any of my friends they were always a problem or I felt like I would get in trouble for speaking to certain people, going to certain places.
“I just felt completely and utterly trapped.”
Georgia, who is now expecting her first child with boyfriend Jack Stacey, 33, said she found it difficult to accept the love and stability of her new relationship after years of trauma.
She met Jack on a dating app last summer and described their pregnancy as a “beautiful surprise.”
“I don’t reckon it was until like probably 3 or 4 months in that I actually believed he was going to stick around.
“I was just so damaged by my other relationship experiences,” she said.
“I was convinced that after a few months I was just going to be lovebombed and this couldn’t be as good as it really was that actually it was.
“I don’t think it was until I was pregnant I was like there’s no way he’s ever going anywhere now. But he can still go though.”
Overcome with emotion, Georgia broke down in tears while speaking about Jack’s impact on her life.
“I just love him so much. Like I can’t, I can’t put into words how much he’s changed my life,” she said.
“He’s changed me completely as a person. He’s made me love myself in ways I never thought I could. And he supports me through everything.
“I waited my whole life for someone to treat me the way he treats me. I just feel like happy all the time. I feel like more motivated. I feel more proud of myself.”
Georgia has been awarded an MBE for her work in online safety and cybercrime awareness after her own experience with intimate image abuse.
Georgia is pregnant with her first baby[/caption]
Georgia with boyfriend Jack[/caption]
