Just weeks ago, Evelyn Lozada became a victim of domestic violence with newly NFL husband Chad Ochocinco Johnson. The couple got into a heated argument, after Evelyn found receipts in the car for a condom purchase. Chad ultimately got violent, and headbutted Evelyn, leaving her with a gash in her forehead that she later had to receive stitches for. This incident later lead to Evelyn filing for divorce and Chad being dropped from the Miami Dolphins.
Now for the first time since the incident took place, Evelyn is giving an exclusive interview to set the record straight…take a look at some of the excerpts from the interview after the jump…along with a video clip of the actual interview…
On what she wants for Chad:
“I would like for him to tell me that he got help and that he is working on himself, whenever I talk to my sister or my girlfriend, I always say I want the best for him. I really do! And he is a good guy who made a bad choice. He loves football, he is very driven, a great dad. He made a bad choice that destroyed his life and I hate that I’m connected to that, I do, but it was his choice. It wasn’t mine.
It would have to take sometime [for us to speak again]. I love him very much and I think that us being away from each other is the right thing. So when is he going to say sorry? [...] It’s the hardest thing in the world to walk away from someone that you really love/ But you have to walk away because I have to protect myself.”
On the events leading up to the head-butting incident:
“And then the next thing I know, he grabbed me by here [pointing to her head] and he head-butted me. I felt blood coming down my face… and I looked at him and I said, ‘You just head-butted me?’ And it just — everything just felt if it was in slow motion.
He was gone to me, like, it wasn’t him. He got out of the car, really, really quick and ran into the house, and I said to myself, ‘I need to get out of here.”
On the decision to file for divorce:
“I said to myself, ‘I’m never going to go through that again, ever. I don’t think any woman should ever have to feel like that or be fearful of her husband.
I was a very good fiancé and wife to Chad. I did everything I could to make his life better. The person on ‘Basketball Wives’ is not the person at home. I don’t think he would marry me if I was.”
The full interview airs tonight at 11:30pm on ABC via: necolebitchie