BBC star Nikita Kanda has opened up about suffering years of physical and mental abuse, as she calls for an end to violence against women.
Nikita Kanda has told her story in the hope of helping others BBC presenter and Strictly Come Dancing star Nikita Kanda has shared her story about surviving ‘years’ of mental and physical abuse, after watching her mother go through the same. In a candid social media post, Nikita, 29, explained how she felt a ‘sense of duty’ to open up about her experience to her 37,000 followers in the hope it might change the violence against women and girls epidemic in the UK.
‘Thank you for listening.’ Nikita told The Independent she was ‘locked away in a little room’ as a child at the hands of a violent abuser. ‘The violence left me with a lot of issues,’ she told the publication. ‘I didn’t know who I was, what was right, what was wrong, and I remember just feeling really angry and then emotional and confused. ‘When you go through things like that, it mentally scars and traumatises you. ‘I still get flashbacks now.
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