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Justine Skye Reveals She Was In An Abusive Relationship: ‘I Was One Of Those People Who Thought, ‘Oh! Nobody Would Ever Put Their Hands On Me’

<p>October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Justine Skye is a survivor&period; The songstress shares her personal story about being in an abusive relationship in the visuals for her latest track&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Build&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I was one of those people who thought&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Oh&excl; Nobody would ever put their hands on me&comma;’&&num;8221&semi; Justine shared in an interview with <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;billboard&period;com&sol;articles&sol;columns&sol;hip-hop&sol;8481325&sol;justine-skye-interview-build-video-arin-ray-ultraviolent">Billboard<&sol;a>&period; She goes on to say that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;standing up to &lbrack;domestic violence&rsqb; is extremely important” because &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;it can happen to anyone&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There were people in the room&comma; and other women in the video that have been through &lbrack;abuse&rsqb;&comma; too&comma;” she said of filming the emotional video&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;For my mother to watch &lbrack;the filming was emotionally draining&rsqb;&period; It was very sad&period; I was thinking about all the women who have experienced this&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve played the video for some people&comma; and it was triggering&period; For the most part&comma; I hope that people get the message I am trying to spread&comma; which is awareness of the situation&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To get out&comma; the 23-year-old artist says you have to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;find the strength to remove yourself from the situation&period; Understand that you are important&period; You are valuable&period; Your life is valuable&period; Your love is valuable&excl; You deserve so much better&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She added&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Whether it becomes physical or not&comma; it is obvious&period; People will hurt you in a relationship&comma; but for the most part&comma; &lbrack;I feel&rsqb; you may love this person so much that you do not want to believe it&period; So&comma; &lbrack;perhaps&rsqb; you choose to ignore all of the signs&comma; even when they are directly in your face&period; You don&&num;8217&semi;t want to believe it is true&period; You don&&num;8217&semi;t want to believe this person could hurt you this bad&comma; so you&comma; I guess&comma; pretend&period; Well&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve definitely done that many times&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As far as Justine advice to survivors&comma; she says&comma; ”Continue on your journey to love and positivity&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Something like this &lbrack;experience&rsqb; can make you lose so much trust in any relationship&period; It is hard to look at &lbrack;new&rsqb; people&comma; and not think of the person that hurt you&comma;” she shared&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So&comma; &lbrack;I&&num;8217&semi;d say to them&rsqb;&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Guard your heart&period; Stay strong&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t give up on love&period; Do not completely cut people out&period; Be more aware of the signs&period;’”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roommates&comma; if you or anyone you know is a victim of domestic violence&comma; please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1−800−799−SAFE for help&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Justine’s forthcoming EP set scheduled to drop at top of 2019&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"44887" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;justine-skye-reveals-she-was-in-an-relationship-i-was-one-of-those-people-who-thought-oh-nobody-would-ever-put-their-hands-on-me&sol;" data-secure&equals;"460cd1126b"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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