Amanza Smith: When I was little I was abused by two members of my family

Amanza Smith opens for the first time a dark chapter of her past. Speaking to the digital magazine ‘Mr. Warburton,” the reality star “Selling Sunset” she claims she was sexually abused between the ages of three and eleven by two members of her family.

“I’ve shown a tough face, which comes from the fact that from the time I was three years old I was sexually abused by someone very close to me and I had to pretend it wasn’t happening,” Smith says in the interview.

Smith says that because of what happened to her, she developed a “protective” or “survival skill” to help her deal with bad situations, and it wasn’t until she had children of her own that she realized how her childhood trauma really affected her. .

“Until God gave me a little girl, it didn’t click,” she says. “It hit me one day when my daughter was almost two years old and I was pregnant with my son. I imagined everything that had happened to me was happening to her. And everything changed.”

She continues: “Suddenly everything made sense: All the things I’d struggled with in my teenage years, the addiction in my 20s, the ways I felt like a failure, unmotivated and somehow different from my friends.” .

“I truly believe that everything happens for a reason,” Smith says. “I wouldn’t change anything in my life. I would be reborn and live the exact same life of trauma and abuse. I would do it again because I am strong enough. I was chosen to pass it. Now I can be a voice to help others overcome it” added the real estate agent.

Prior to her ‘Selling Sunset’ debut in season two, Smith was married to former NFL player Ralph Brown between 2010 and 2012, and they have two children together, Noah and Baker.

Read the News today and get the latest news.
Follow Skai.gr on Google News and be the first to know all the news.