Bethenny Frankel says she has post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from her lengthy divorce from ex-husband Jason Hoppy and their custody battle over daughter Bryn.
“I’ve been burned. I have massive trust issues, and I have post-traumatic stress disorder. It was literally the most traumatizing thing I will hopefully ever go through in my life,” she said on Thursday’s episode of her “Just B” podcast.
The “Real Housewives of New York City” alum, 53, called her 10-year divorce “more tortuous” than grieving the death of a loved one.
“I thought I would never survive it. I did not see a way out,” she continued. “It was suffocating. I thought I was gonna be miserable for the rest of my life.”
Frankel even referred to her lengthy divorce as “mental and emotional torture” and reflected on being a “powerless, tortured” individual.
“I have had every single f–king thing except for physical abuse done to me, and I am an expert on this topic,” she claimed.
The Skinnygirl founder then listed off some of the things she’s allegedly dealt with over the last 10 years, like “fraud,” “forgery,” “multiple trials on custody,” “being followed” and “allegedly being hacked.”
“I have been through a f–king war –– a war. I have questioned myself as a human, as a parent, because I was told so many times otherwise how terrible I was and disgusting and old and irrelevant and so abused, because I had no power to get out of it,” she said.
Frankel shared her feelings while explaining that she is finally “ready” to begin talking about “something that has been impossible to talk about” for…
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