Zari Opens Up On Why He Dumped The Late Don Ivan For Diamond Platnumz
November 28, 2021
Zari with the late Don Ivan
Zari Hassan has for the first time opened up on being married to an abusive man who almost killed her.
Zari was married to the late Ivan Ssemwanga who was physically violent and verbally abusive.
Speaking during an interview with Toke Makinwa on the Youtube channel ‘The Hassans’, Zari shared, “Abuse starts with a word, it can start with verbal abuse. something that diminishes you as a person. Sometimes it gets very physical and very violent.”
Zari narated, “It reached a point where the kids would hear me and him (Ivan) screaming in the bedroom. It got to a point where my son asked me why he kept doing that (abusing me).
It hurt me so badly, it was like a sword had been pierced through my heart.”
Zari says the question from her son made her wonder for how long he had known his mum was being abused.
“He has been hearing it but has never talked about it. I asked myself for how long he had known what I was going through. It became violent and obsessed and he would find people sitting at the next table and he would react badly. I was first abused by Ivan when 3 months pregnant. It was not the money that changed him.
She continued, “It was something that was in him. He once hit me so badly in a club because someone looked at me. I was never allowed to look at other people. That night he beat me so bad that he almost suffocated me.”
Zari says she tried covering up for him until she could not do so anymore.
“I lied to my kids that we were just speaking, my son asked me for long I would tolerate the abuse. It had reached a point where he felt nobody would have me if it wasn’t him.
People would encourage me to hang in there as these things happen in marriage and I thought they were crazy. At the time my son was 9 years old. I started isolating myself because I felt I was not good enough.”
He was almost killing me. When I left he thought I would fail and come back. We had rentals so I gave the tenant notice and moved into the house.”
To Zari this was the time she thought of living her own life and the process she started secretly seeing Tanzanian crooner, Diamond Platnumz.
The pair who later separated in 2018, have two children Prince Nillan and Princess Tiffah.
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