“He almost suffocated me” Zari Hassan on living with an insecure and abusive husband

Zari Hassan who was once married to the late Ivan Don recently sat down to have a candid interview with YouTuber Toke Makinwa and for the first time she opens up about her marriage, revealing some unknown things.

Okay, since we already know that her marriage to the late Ivan Don was toxic; Zari gives an insight of how their love slowly started getting affected by jealousy and how he started abusing her.

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Zari with late ex husband, Ivan

According to Zari, the first time Ivan hit her was when she was only 3 months pregnant; but being in love – she ignored this not knowing this would grow into a habit.

Speaking about violence in relationships, the mother of five said;

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.

Insecurities

Zari with her boys at Ivan Don’s funeral

With time, Zari says that her late ex husband perfected his art at hitting her to a point that her boys even noticed the fights. She went on to narrate how her son once confronted about the fights asking why she (Zari) was allowing their dad (Ivan) to hit her;

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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.

Well if you thought that this was only happening at home, turns out that Ivan had gotten so much power that he could even hit her in-front of people.

Narrating about one of their public fights, Zari said;

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.

But all in all, Zari made it known that her reason for leaving the guy despite being her high-school sweetheart; is because she couldn’t let her boys continue seeing her in such a state.

¨That´s bitchcrafty¨ Zari calls out media blog for claiming she inherited the mansion in Uganda

Zari Hassan might have lost close to everything after the demise of her tycoon ex-husband, Ivan ‘Don’ Ssemwanga but she had the mind of an investor.

Zari spent a part of the Festive season with her sons in Uganda but her luxurious mansion and fleet of fuel guzzlers is what caught the attention of many.

Unfortunately, to majority, the mother of 5 could not have acquired all that from her own sweat. Many alleging that her late ex-husband had a large input in her wealth.

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A gossip blog, as reported by Pulse Live Kenya, apparently stated that the posh mansion Zari was flaunting was actually an inheritance from the late Ivan.

Zari got wind of the news and she came out in a bid to clarify on the reports. Additionally bashing the blog for ´spreading rumors´.

According to Mama Tiffah, she built the house from scratch with her own hard-earned money till its completion.

Get your facts right, I never inherited this house. It was never Ivan´s. I built this on my own from scratch!!!! Y´all can´t stand a person´s success. That´s bitchcrafty.

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Yes, the married couple co-owned businesses they co-founded together and after Ivan´s demise, Zari inherited majority of his property and businesses as stated in his will.

However, the house Zari flaunted online was not among the properties she took over.