Meredith Vieira Domestic Violence - The Talk Show Host took advantage of the Ray Rice video incident to open up and reveal that these kinds of things happen every day everywhere and she is a victim herself.
The tricky deal about Domestic Violence is that nobody can seem to fathom why anyone would stay. Why if being inside a relationship that is toxic in so many ways, then why would anybody put up with that instead of packing up and getting the hell away from there as fast as possible.
Meredith Vieira, talk show host of The Meredith Vieira Show and past moderator of The View, has taken the opportunity in her talk show to talk about Domestic Violence and how personal the issue hit her.
Essentially, there is a preview clip of The Meredith Vieira Show where she starts off by introducing the Ray Rice incident and how people are using the hashtags in Twitter of #WhyIStayed and #WhyIleft and then, she shares why she stayed.
It turns out that she was in an abusive relationship that started with mild grabbing from him and then as time went by, it went into a full Domestic Violence incident that lasted for a while.
Meredith Vieira said about her Domestic Violence situation, "I was scared if I tried to leave something worse would happen... part of the reason why I stayed was guilt, because afterwards he would start crying and say 'I promise I won't do it again' and I thought maybe I contributed somehow to this"
After that, she says that the abusive relationship stopped once she was offered a job in another state and it was only then that Meredith Vieira thought she could really leave and get away from the domestic violence she was suffering.
She ends the talk by telling that it is not something that happens with an NFL player but that it is very common and the answer is always to leave.
Of course, Meredith Vieira first ponders about domestic violence and repeats several times that it is a very complicated issue and leaving is not simple, not easy and that it takes too much strength because most times, the person who has to leave simply loves the other person too much to genuinely believe they are hurting them.
