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hi tyra i know how it feels to be a victim of domestic violence my dad beat my mom so baqd and my brother and i was right there i was around five. i would see my mother put aknife to her stomach and try to kill herself i was terrified.I remembered another incident when my dad beated my mother with a shove. The ady after he beated her with acutlash he told us he was going to kill abig black snake i went to see the snake there i realize the snake was my mother my aunt told me it was going to be ok and i believe her now i know she was lying. now i am fourteen years old my dad stop beating my mom about two year ago. Now he is with another woman and horning my mom the other night i her them talking louldly when i went outside around threeo'clock in the morning i saw my mother with a one of those big hammer wanting to hit my dad in his head. Its hurts my mother to see all she work hard for another woman is reaping.I feel sorry for my mom even though we don't have a relationship at all i know how she feels. She had suffered all her life her mother intreated her she only got primary school education. I thjinks her life and what she went through make her so annoying now i feel soorry for her but she is real sicken she takes things out of perportion.love you with all my heart

Tyra? you're not much better than Chris Brown. asking a guy on national televission how he felt when he hit a woman, won't solve domestic violence. Did you ask Rihanna how she felt when she slapped Chris over a cellphone message? If a person in you're position is not going to tell young ladies when not to slap a guy in the face. It's like saying it's always okay. He never should have beaten her, and he will pay, as he should. I'm just saying it makes no sense to tell anyone not to feel violent toward someone who was violent toward them. you're better off Telling him not to take the law into his own hands instead. Police get paid the same to arrest women as they do men. If she , you, or anyone slaps me over a cellphone message? I'm calling the police, I'm pressing charges. I'm a veteran I understand the meaning of self defence. Trya? tell everyone not to hit ever, ever, ever! . A lot of angry young women need to hear that from you, and Oprah.

Hello Tyra. I saw the show on Domestic Violence. I grow up in a home that was full of Domestic and sexually violence. As an adult i married and that relationship turned violence. I did divorce after many years of this relationship. Now i am a Victim Advocate and a Certified Legal advocate. I am certified to petition the court for Temporary Pertection Orders. The organization I work for is currently in partnership with other organization to help women in Low income communities with issues relating to Domestic Violence. The reason for this e-mail. I wanted to see if I could get some information from you about the Christ and Rianna Situation. I would like to share this information with them. Just like you. I was surprise to hear how many people thought this was all Rianna Fault.

I wish you would mention that abuse goes in all ways men get abused by women as well as men abussing women you dont hear about it that much but it does happen....To the girl Velvet stay strong sweety you were so brave to come on tv and tell your story. I know you werent faking and it makes me so very angry to read that people on here think you were. your story sounded quite close to what i went through. Once youve been beaten down so far you never fully recover from it. Ive been with my guy now for almost 6 years and hes always treated me like a queen it took me until about last year to really trust him and not to be affraid of him when he raised his voice. he hates what my ex did to me and how it ruined my selfesteem he tells me every day how beautiful iam and how great Iam. Its wonderful to be appreciated. We have a son together and he turns 3 months on the 16th of this month. Hold in there sweety and tell yourself every day that your worth everything thats good in life and lift yourself up as much as you can I know its really hard and sometimes seems impossible to do but keep it up and soon youll realize you dont need him at all you need yourself to get you through. And Tyra if you read this I think for the blonde girl with the guy on the panel you should of sent them to seperate counciling to get help. For her becaus ei think she has no selfesteem.

You know what hurts the most, to see half the comments on here about how I was faking being upset. Do you even know how hard it was to talk about that in front of a bunch of strangers. I was not faking being upset. I was scared shitless, I did my best to try and tell my story and explain what was wrong with me. I'm sorry I'm not up to ya'lls standards for being emotionally uspet. Its not an easy subject to talk about. It was one, and still is, one of the hardest times of my life, and so I'm sorry that you think I was faking, but if I was faking I wouldn't give a damn about what ya'll are saying about me right now, and I wouldn't bother posting this because I wouldn't care. So oibviously I'm upset and I care.

hi tyra! I was never sexually active. because I dont want to. but, I think I might have lots desire inside... like I might have this sexual talent, that is able to please anyone sexually very well..... If I do sex a lot I might be able to develope this 'talent'. but what good does it do..... If I really have this talent I would never want to use it..... I would rather think about the real saints, who never think about sex at all....... their life were peaceful and holy........ sometimes I like to read about life of the saints...... the peaceful feeling in the soul is better then anything.......

I've been listening to some songs and...... I didnt know the ghost, which used my image(which I don't look good at all though), was not a nice one at all..... That's too bad..... I've no idea about, myself is not like that. I can only say, it's from god, part of God's plan.

OK Tyra I love your show and today my oldest daughter Cassandra, age 12, watched it with me. She knows that me and her father got together when we were very young. I was 13 and he was 16. When I was 17 I became pregnant with Cassie-he had been verbally abusive up untill this point, but the first time he hit me was after he found out I was pregnant. She was born in January 1997, the following year in August I gave birth to our second daughter, Veronica. I spent both pregnancies and the months in between terriffied of the man I loved. The father of my children. I fell into the typical,"I'm not god enough, I'm not pretty" all the stuff he told me. Yes my father beat my mother. Yes I witnessed that. And finally on August 13th 1998, when my daughter was barely one week old he hit me. He was holding my baby and still managed to break my right eye socket and cheek bone. I left him after that. We did get back together after some counsleing and a long time apart. He has not hit me since-it's been over 10 years and we have 5 beautiful children now. Men can change-relationships can change-they grow or they die. By all means leave an abusive relationship. DON'T ever think that oyu deserve it or believe the lies he says, but know that there is hope. Sometimes there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

I am currently watching the show and can very much relate to some of these girls. I was in an abusive relationship for a year and a half. I do not consider myself a victim because I believe the victim card is a state of mind. I may have been a victim at the time but I am not anymore. I almost am thankful that this was relationship happened, I grew confidence from this relationship and realized that I don't have to let men run over me. I love my attitude now and it's all due to that relationship. Violence is in no way acceptable on either party, but instead of playing the victim after it's said and done I use the experience to better my life.

The blonde who Tyra was caring for was so obviously faking being upset, but I appreciate the efforts that Tyra made toward young girls being beaten. Great show Tyra.

I have never hit a woman but to a certain extent I agree with Josh. It was utterly ridiculous for that PSA to leave out that she hit him first. It killed all credibility. He was totally excessive, but you cannot make this a gender issue. It's not ok for ANYONE to hit ANYONE! The concept comes from women being the weaker sex. What about a muscle bound bully hitting smaller boy? What do you do when a woman is repeatedly beating you if you're a man? The only time it is ok to hit man or woman is in self-defense. It is NEVER ok for a woman to hit a man either, outside of self-defense. This makes this a sexist topic. Women claim to hate double-standards in gender issues, but this makes it seem as though they only hate double-standards that don't impact them negatively...which ironically is a double-standard in itself.

Dear Tyra, Watching your show today brought back the horror of my domestic violence past and at the same time, made me analyze my current relatinship. When I was 22yrs. old I married the man of my dreams, handsome, loving, attentive, all the qualities a woman looks for in a man. I got pregnant and we then married. It was really fast paced. Too fast. I didn't know he was an alcoholic. I was pregnant so I didn't care. While I was in labor, with twins, my husband was there by my side, drunk. I still didn't care. When the twin boys and I were released from the hospital my husband admitted himself to rehab. It didn't work. By then I was pregnant again with our daughter. Again my husband admitted himself to rehab but this time not quite on his own. After my daughter was born he began drinking very heavily, I went through alot of mental and sexual abuse due to him. He would spit on me, call me names, accuse me of stealing his money, flip the bed over on me, take all the money out of my wallet. He even threw a set of car keys at me while I was holding one of the babies. Luckily I ducked and he missed. Because he missed he became angry and broke his hand by pounding it on the kitchen table. This went on for a while, at least a year, by then I was a mental wreck. My sister and mother foung me in a state of deep depression and took me to the hospital where I received treatment, my husband ended up going to jail and I received a protection order. I finally had him removed from the home. Now he was really mad. He would

women are not the only ones that are abused. i get a little sick of hearing about rihanna. she attacked chris brown first. why doesnt anyone talk about that? you cant assault someone then call it abuse when they beat you up in return i mean c'mon lets get real. you are not helping people become aware of domestic abuse by continuing to cover rihanna people do not have sympathy for her she started it.