Model and businesswoman Maripily Rivera is receiving psychiatric help to find a solution to the physical and verbal abuse she allegedly received over the past six months from her partner, a Pakistani construction worker.
“I am strong and it has been very difficult for me. I resume my meetings quietly. I can’t let myself fall. I have my shrink, my best friend’s husband, who I talk to 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 told People en Español.
Rivera told the publication that he had experienced three violent episodes with the man he met in Los Angeles.
“I started packing for him, I went to (my son, Joe Joe’s) room, then he came and grabbed me by the neck and threw me on the floor, I fell on my son’s bed and got to my head break my neck on the wood in the corner, I hit my ribs. When he saw me lying on the floor, he was shocked and left the house. I called the police and filed a (complaint) “he told it magazine about the incident that ended the relationship.
He stated that he had already experienced the subject’s aggressiveness at his sister’s home at Christmas and at a beach house in Puerto Rico.
“People blocked me from my phone, they started throwing my stuff at me. I had to call the owner of the beach cabin to help me, she struggled a bit with me because I wanted to take my phone from her and if the lady doesn’t come God knows what would have happened there. I left him for a week and he came back because he told me he was looking for help and would change, ”he explained the second event.
Maripily called on women not to tolerate and report violence.
“There are women who are intimidated into doing what I have done. I know how guilty they feel about low self-esteem. I dared because I said, “What’s wrong with me?” I say they must have the strength and courage to seek help while I am at it, ”he told the publication.
In the same interview, she estimated that “this is all (because of my fear of being alone, the fear of loneliness. I don’t know how I endured so much at the time that he gave me the edge of the forest, he was gone and he would leave me there. This all happened on Friday at 9:30 pm. “