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The Dancing With the Stars contestant broke down in tears during tonight’s episode when discussing her inspiration for this week’s theme Most Memorable Year.
“This week, it’s most memorable year, and mine is 2016, because I had my baby girl. I feel like I’m the strongest I’ve been my entire life. She’s given me the strength I didn’t know I would have,” Kramer says in her pre-taped package before the dance.
“And I’ve been in bad situations w I’ve let people take that from me. Ten years ago, I was in an abusive relationship. It was the worst time of my life. He went to jail for attempted murder on me. It’s been a very heavy secret to hold for so many years. The situation ten years ago broke me. It took having Jolie to piece together every single broken part of me.”
“I was so ashamed,” the 32-year-old told People of the abuse that ultimately landed Gambino in prison for attempted murder in 2005.
“I literally walked around on eggshells, terrified to tell anybody, because I was so ashamed of the situation I had put myself in. I was like I put myself in this and now I have to figure out how to get out of it, or stay in it and make it better.”
Gambino was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to six years in prison.
He was released in 2010 and committed suicide two years later.