Kanika Mann Opens Up About Abusive Ex-Boyfriend in Bigg Boss

Kanika described one incident that she still remembers clearly. Her boyfriend walked into her class without telling her and slapped her for wearing a striped suit. "He slapped me in front of the whole corridor," she said. She had recently had her ears pierced, and they started bleeding. When her housemates asked whether anyone stepped in, she said nobody came forward to help.

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Over time the control got worse. Kanika said he once snatched her phone and threw it into a crowd, and threw away the keys to her hostel room. He also used her family against her. "'Now come with me. Otherwise I will call your father. I will tell him that I am your boyfriend,'" he would say, according to her. He did call her father once, but her father did not answer. "If he had picked it up, I would have been saved much earlier," she said.

The Day She Fought Back

Kanika said she slowly began to understand her rights, partly because she had studied law for about eight to nine months. The last confrontation came when he followed her from her hostel to her college department, grabbed her hand and pulled her. He was carrying a knife, and she said she feared for her life.

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She saw someone she knew walking past and asked him to call the police. "Within 2 minutes, the police came," she said. For the first time, she felt he was scared of something. He was taken away and spent two to three days in jail.

It did not end there. She said his family and relatives called and threatened her. "They were not requesting, they were threatening," she said. She was afraid of what speaking up would cost her and of her family finding out. When she finally told them, they stood by her.

Kanika's story is about more than her own past. Control often starts small, with checking a phone, objecting to clothes or using a partner's family as a threat, and it is easy to miss when you are young and in your first relationship. Her account also shows two things that can make a real difference: someone nearby who chose to act, and a family that listened.

Kanika Mann is known for TV shows like 'Guddan Tumse Na Ho Payega' and 'Chand Jalne Laga', and has also worked in Punjabi films and music videos.

(With inputs from IANS)