Jana Kramer is opening up about her past experience with abuse.
"This happened a lot. He would come home from a night out at the club and literally take me out of my bed and then throw me onto the ground," the "Dancing with the Stars" contestant revealed.
"[That night] he said he was going to kill me, he choked me, he did all those things and I was like, 'This is it.'
"When we were struggling, he was choking me, and I see everything -- I see my mom, I see my funeral -- like, Iiterally have, like, that flash of my whole life. And I just remember I screamed out my mom's name and that's the last thing I remember," she said.
The former "One Tree Hill" star and Gambino married in 2004 and divorced several months later.Gambino was convicted of the actress' attempted murder in 2005 and served five years in prison. He killed himself two years after his release.
"I remember getting the call that he committed suicide and I felt bad because my first feeling was relief that he was gone, that I didn't have to worry about him anymore," the star admitted.
The singer revealed having her daughter, Jolie, helped her to cope with the experience.
"It was the worst time of my life," she said of her first marriage.
"It's been a very heavy secret to hold for so many years. The situation ten years ago essentially broke me. It took having Jolie to piece together every single broken part of me."
"I never want my daughter to ever go through the things I went through, or question that she's not good enough," the actress added.
"And I want my daughter to know that no man should ever put their hands on her."
Caussin apologized in the Oct. 17 issue of People for "certain actions and behaviors" that "caused issues in [his] marriage."
