article_snippet: You can take anything that’s dished out because there’s someone who cares for you.
article_snippet: Nelly said: ‘With my first husband I chose someone not knowing that my first husband was a bad guy.
article_snippet: I had never been with a man before and from day one throughout all six years of that marriage
article_snippet: I had been hit... to the point where I had to go to work with bruises all over my body, raped many, many times and everything else.
article_snippet: The day after my second son died, I came home and my first husband punched me in the forehead, there was blood all over the place.
article_snippet: A week after that, I left with my second son and we went to California.
article_snippet: I went on with my life, I went to school
article_snippet: and I never asked for child support or anything.