Model Kris Smith has told fellow contestants on Channel 10’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! he was a victim of domestic violence in a previous relationship.
He met his ex fiance, who is a professional kick boxer, when he was 25.
“I was going through that stage where I was like, you know what, your wild child days are over now, have a family, 25 is a great age,” he said. “It didn’t last long.”
He said an argument about him being on the phone, trying to organise a surprise dinner, quickly turned to violence.
“She busted my nose. She busted my lip,” Smith said.
“She could throw a punch as well. I went to walk off and she booted me right up the arse and I turned around and she punched me again.”
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Smith said he met the woman through work, and that he left her straight after she punched him.
The English model has a six-year-old son Ethan with Australian singer, songwriter Dannii Minogue. However the pair split two years after Ethan was born, and both are committed to co-parenting while living separately.
During his time in the I'm A Celebrity jungle, Smith has been secretive about the identity of his current girlfriend. Talking to fellow contestants, he has also alluded to still having feelings for his most recent ex, fitness model Maddy King.
"I’m reconnecting with my ex and everything else,” he said. “It is just fresh; we are talking again about fixing things up. I have just got a lot of feelings for her."
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Actually this is not uncommon but men do not talk about it and are often not believed by police especially when they look fit
In US studies the prevalence of domestic violence experienced in a lifetime broken down by relationship type are:
61.1% of bisexual women
43.8% lesbians
37.3% bisexual men
35% heterosexual women
29% heterosexual men
26% gay men
Food for thought....
The laughter of the girls speaks volumes of the difference society places on DV against men and women. This is a large part of the reason why men dont come forward. This then gets used against men to suggest that DV against them is not an issue worthy of addressing in the media etc. I hope this starts to change, and victim's voices can be heard.