Two days after revealing that she is married and accusing her husband of home abuse (opens in new tab), streamer Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa says she has regained management of her funds and social media accounts, and is now “free.”
Siragusa, one of many highest-profile streamers on Twitch (opens in new tab), alleged throughout an early-morning stream on October 16 that her husband managed her funds, pushed her to stream lengthy hours in Twitch’s scorching tub class, and even threatened to kill her canine. At one level through the stream, she unmuted her microphone whereas in a name along with her husband; he might be heard insulting her, calling her a liar, and demanding that she go away the home. She apologized for doing so in her most up-to-date stream, saying that it was “onerous to look at.”
“I did not actually know what else to do, as a result of he was threatening to tweet shit,” Siragusa mentioned, “He was going to tweet stay, I wished to beat him to the punch, however… sorry if I triggered anyone with previous abuse.
“That was truly the primary time that he is ever heard himself on a recording, as a result of as I informed you guys earlier than, beforehand after I recorded him he would simply refuse to take heed to recordings … I believe that when he heard himself on that decision, it actually sunk in how a lot of an asshole he’s. It is like he by no means realized. Fool.”
Siragusa mentioned she now has entry to her funds and social media accounts, and is “looking for authorized and emotional counsel.” She added that her husband is “getting assist.”
Siragusa additionally expressed shock on the degree of help she’s been proven, even by people who find themselves usually detractors. “There have been so many messages. It is type of loopy,” she mentioned. “I felt so alone for therefore lengthy and now it is like, I can not cease getting folks to speak to me. Not in a foul method, it is only a very huge distinction. I did not suppose folks cared that a lot.”
As for what comes subsequent, Siragusa mentioned she’s “optimistic concerning the future” and glad to be “free [and] nonetheless alive.”
“I do not actually know what I will do subsequent,” she mentioned. “Hopefully much more animal streams. Going to take time to course of it, I believe. I do not know when or if I will be again to a full-time schedule. Not less than for now although, I believe I will take it straightforward. And I haven’t got to put on cleavage day-after-day! I can put on garments.”
“I actually do not know what is going on to occur,” she mentioned later within the stream, implying once more that her husband managed her on-screen wardrobe. “I simply hope folks nonetheless watch, with out a lot titty exhibiting.”
The total stream might be seen under.