Nicki Minaj posts powerful tweets about abusive relationships
TW: physical and emotional abuse.
Nicki Minaj has penned a powerful thread about toxic relationships and how she learned to love herself.
Posted on Sunday, the Grammy-nominated rapper's first tweet began with some advice for people who see women in toxic relationships.
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"Rather than laugh & say mean things, try to offer sound advice from your heart & root for her to learn her worth," wrote Minaj.
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The next tweet, addressed to "all of you beautiful souls," listed a series of behaviours indicative of physical and emotional abuse.
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Minaj then wrote that she used to believe that "love had to hurt."
"A man should make you feel safe, not afraid," she wrote.
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She continued explaining her personal experience of being in a physically abusive relationship. "I remember being so afraid to speak cuz I never knew when that person would be in a particular mood and I could maybe say one wrong thing that would get me hit," wrote Minaj.
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She added that the difference now is that she feels "lifted up, safe, appreciated & unconditionally loved."
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"But first I had to learn how to love MYSELF," she added. "This isn't about judging. We judge too much. Life them up."
Wise words.
If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the English National Domestic Violence Helpline: 0808 2000 247. For information on housing, money, children, and your legal rights, consult the The Survivor’s Handbook, created by Women’s Aid.
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
