Model and businesswoman Maripily Rivera is receiving psychiatric help seeking to overcome the physical and verbal abuse she claims to have received from her partner in the past six months, a Pakistani construction worker.
“I am strong and it was very difficult for me. I’m calm to resume my meetings. I can’t let myself fall. I have my psychiatrist, the husband of my best friend, with whom I talk a lot. Yesterday I had nightmares with this event, I have my sad moments, but I have to get up and continue my routine “, he declared for People en Español.
Rivera told the publication that she lived three violent episodes with the man, whom she met in Los Angeles.
“I started packing for him, I went to the room (my son, Joe Joe), then he came, grabbed me by the neck and threw me on the floor, I fell on my son’s bed and protected my head. And don’t break my neck on the wood in the corner, I’m hitting my ribs. When he saw me lying on the floor, he got scared and left the house. I called the police and filed a (complaint) “, he told the magazine about the incident that marked the end of the relationship.
He said he had already experienced the subject’s aggression at his sister’s Christmas residence and at a beach house in Puerto Rico.
“People were blocking me from my phone, they started throwing things at me. I had to call the owner of the beach house to help me, she struggled a little with me because I wanted to take my phone from her and if the lady didn’t come, God knows what would have happened there. I left him for a week and he came back, because he told me that he was looking for help and that he would change “, he explained at the second event.
Maripily urged women not to tolerate violence and to report it.
“There are women who are intimidated to do what I did. I know how they feel guilty about low self-esteem. I dared because I said, “What’s wrong with me?” I tell them to have the strength, the courage, to seek help as I do “, he told the publication.
In the same interview, she estimated that “all this is (because of my fear of being alone, of the fear of loneliness. I don’t know how I endured so much at that moment that he gave me a wooden edge, he would leave and he left me lying there. It all happened on Friday at 9:30 p.m. “