national domestic violence awareness month
-
'A Life Defined by Fear': Tina Turner Details Even More Abuse from Ike Turner in New Memoir
Most of us remember the brutality brought to life on screen in the 1993 Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got to Do with It, which chronicled the entertainer’s rise to fame under the thumb and almost constant threat of abusive ex-husband and Svengali Ike Turner. The film was named for Tina’s blockbuster hit single of…
-
‘It’s About Saving Lives’: On The View, Andrea Kelly Details Years of Abuse by R. Kelly
Please stop asking why women don’t report abuse—sexual or domestic. It’s been nearly a decade since Andrea Kelly divorced singer, songwriter and multiply-alleged abuser and sexual predator Robert “R.Kelly” Kelly, but she’s broken her silence about their relationship. A Thursday morning appearance on The View was the latest in a series of media appearances that…
-
All Abuse Isn’t Visible: Serena Williams Fights Financial Abuse With the Purple Purse Project
Most of us think we know what domestic abuse looks like, but in 99 percent of intimate partner violence cases, the most disabling aspect is often financial, exacting a level of control over victims that prevents them from escaping. As an ambassador for Allstate’s Purple Purse Project, tennis phenom and entrepreneur Serena Williams has made…