Melissa Benoist's Ex-spouse Blake Jenner Admits to Hurting Her inside Their Short Marriage

"Glee" actor Blake Jenner admitted to hurting ex-wife Melissa Benoist right through their short marriage, and tendered a belated apology for his habits in what he described as a "toxic relationship."

"Supergirl" Actress Melissa Benoist had printed in an Instagram put up that she had been a victim of domestic abuse by the hands of a spouse she didn't identify but described as "younger."

Now, her ex-husband, "Glee" actor Blake Jenner has opened up about their relationship which he describes as "toxic," admitted to his violence, and apologized to Benoist for hurting her, bodily and emotionally.

Melissa Benoist and Blake Jenner at the screening of "Everybody Wants Some" in 2016 in Austin, Texas | Source: Getty Images

Jenner's apologetic Instagram submit is clearly a response to Benoist's 2019 video, titled "Life Isn’t Always What It Seems," wherein she emotionally describes the abuse to which she used to be subjected.

The listing includes a specifically harrowing incident all over which her then-husband had thrown his phone in her face. As a outcome, Benoist suffered from severe lacerations, a broken nose, and a torn iris.

At that point, Benoist covered up the abuse, claiming on “Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” that she had hit her eye on a plant. Benoist admitted that out of disgrace and fear, she hid the abuse she was once struggling.

"Something inside of me broke, this was too far."

Since her 2017 divorce, Benoist has remarried to actor Chris Wood, and the couple welcomed their first kid in 2020. Wood has been supportive of Benoist's resolution to help other girls who are going via the same horrific abuse revel in.

Jenner has now reached out and apologized to his ex for the pain -- physical and emotional -- that he led to her. In his six-page put up, Jenner spoke brazenly in regards to the shame and the worry he felt after his secret was uncovered.

Even despite the fact that Jenner did ask for forgiveness for throwing his iPhone at Benoist, he then went on to percentage out the guilt and the blame with his ex, whom he claims had additionally injured him seriously

SHARING THE PAIN

Jenner attributes the underlying rage and insecurity that led to his abuse of Benoist to an advanced formative years that led to "brokenness." It was jealousy, he claims, that led to his damaging outbursts.

Jenner then goes on to claim that he too suffered bodily abuse at Benoist's hands and that his personal profession suffered from her jealousy and emotional outbursts. He wrote:

"I was made to pass on numerous jobs and opportunities because of jealousy of prospective female costars."

VICTIM BLAME

Even regardless that Jenner did apologize for throwing his iPhone at Benoist, he then went on to share out the guilt and the blame together with his ex, whom he claims had additionally injured him seriously. He wrote:

"I was physically assaulted in the shower, leaving me with a traumatic injury that I do not want to delve into at this time."

Jenner vacillates between owning up for the abuse and apologizing to his ex-wife and justifying his own actions, and the wear and tear he brought about.

Jenner claims to have contemplated on how to reply to the "accusations" and whether or now not he will have to disclose the abuse he allegedly suffered at Benoist's fingers. He wrote:

"I also do believe(...) that accountability goes both ways and one has a right to defend oneself when deemed necessary."

Jenner ended his statement by apologizing to domestic violence victims for any ache his tale would possibly have brought again for them, and identifies himself before everything as a victim, who was violent in retaliation. He wrote:

"I stand with you as a victim myself, I repent for the abuse I inflicted as an aggressor myself."

A MARRIAGE MADE IN HELL

Benoist printed that the abuse had started on an emotional level even sooner than the wedding and that 5 months into the marriage, had escalated to full-blown violence. In order to break out from an enraged Jenner, Benoist would lock herself in their room. She confessed:

"I (...) quickly stopped because the door was inevitably broken down. I learned to not value any of my property (...) I learned not to value myself."

Benoist defined the violence as escalating from emotional to bodily abuse and printed that her personal acceptance of the growing scenario is one thing she cannot perceive even now.

Every outburst would lead to tearful apologies from Jenner, and Benoist would forgive him, excusing his violence by means of recalling the ache he had suffered in his past. Like such a lot of victims of home violence, Benoist fell into melancholy and shielded her abuser with lies.

Jenner's partial and conditional apology is at odds with Benoist's testimony and might be construed as extra of a justification of his personal habits. Due to the damage to her eye, Benoist's imaginative and prescient is permanently impaired.

She in the end got here out in public, in the hope that her personal ordeal will lend a hand other ladies face their situation, and to find the energy to go away, and get started a new life.

Benoist has now been luckily married to her "Supergirl" costar, Chris Wood since 2009, and her new lifestyles now features a new child son, Huxley Robert Wood.

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