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Wind down with Jana Kramer, an Iheart radio podcast.

With it being October and Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we or I really wanted to

bring more awareness to it, talk about it. And one of the people that

reached out that we talked about when I was doing Dancing with the Stars and I came out about

my domestic violence history and being a DV victim, one of the daughters that I didn't know

about had reached out to me when I was

on Dancing with the Stars. And obviously, I was at the time going through turmoil with my then

husband, you know, we had, I believed, emailed, but it was, I kind of just had to distance because it was just too much. And then she

had reached out about coming on the podcast and, you know, we discussed it on here. Like, what was her

motivation and what was the reasoning and, you know, so we had a conversation. I called her. Well, she

had emailed me and then with the help of the producer.

And then I said, yeah, let's get on the phone. Like, let's have a conversation. And we had a

conversation and it was so just like I thought I didn't need any more pieces really from it.

Sure.

But there was things that I've still discovered about him that blew my mind but also

gave me validation.

And like an okay, maybe this was, I wasn't crazy.

I think that's the, the key piece is people owning it and validating.

I sit in a seat coming from a home that had violence.

And so the part that I think I'm always missing is probably the connective

tissue that you and Brittany are getting from that conversation. Yeah. I'm very much living a life

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