EMERDALE’S Jaye Griffiths today broke down in tears live on Loose Women as she opened up about being domestically abused.
The soap star, 62, spent five years in a terrifying relationship that saw her former partner abuse her physically and mentally.
The TV star bravely opened up on feeling “ashamed” by what had happened to her, but how she is now finally “herself again”.
Jaye, who plays Celia Daniels on Emmerdale, appeared on today’s Loose Women where she opened up about her horrific ordeal at the hands of her former partner.
The star, who is now in a loving relationship, broke down almost immediately as she relived her awful experience.
The actress, who famously played D.I. Sally Johnson in ITV‘s The Bill, began to cry as she talked about about the toll the abuse had taken on her.
Speaking about what could trigger her partner to abuse her, she told the Loose Women panel: “If you made the tea the wrong way, that could have consequences.”
Jaye then began to cry as she said: “I was told I was useless.”
Speaking about her current happy relationship, she revealed that her past trauma meant her new partner was not allowed to “sneak up behind her or touch her neck.
A few weeks ago, Jaye talked more about the abuse she suffered on Loose Women star Kaye Adams‘ How To Be 60 podcast: “I couldn’t tell anybody because I was so ashamed. I disappeared for about five years.
“You would now use the term gaslight – but I couldn’t make a decision, I didn’t know if what I thought was real was real, because he would constantly tell me I was wrong and the day after he hit me, I would get jewellery.”
Explaining how far the horrifying abuse went, the brave star said: “If I put the heating on in the house there could be consequences to that, ‘you f***ing waste my money‘, so, I wouldn’t put it on.
“If I didn’t put it on and the house was cold, there’d be consequences to that, so you live in a world of, ‘What should I do? what’s for the best?’”
Jaye continued: “I lived in this twilight existence and I had to start again.
“I had to find out that someone walking behind you didn’t mean you were going to get clobbered, that people sometimes said truthful things.
“But that took a very long time. When I finally went to the police they said on average a woman is hit 37 times before she tells anyone. All I did was lie – “No, I’m fine thanks, I’m fine”, and that’s exhausting.”
On Loose Women today, Jaye said she is now “happy with herself” and that she is now living a life that is “so gentle and peaceful”.
