Kit: hey don’t get me wrong I’m pretty sure she was scared but you can’t let fear stop you when you have other people to think about, especially your own children. I’m not judging I speak from experiences Bette…Look Bette I never told you this, but when I was in New York I was dating this man name Charlie in the local jazz band who use to play for me. And oh let me tell you honey that man charmed the hell out of me, I mean everyday flowers, candies, poems, I felt like the luckiest woman on earth. So we got together and I say less than a few months I started to see his true colors. The one thing he loved about me at first which is that I was a singer in a nightclub, well let’s just say it was the one thing that sent him into a jealous rage afterwards. Everyday Charlie would accuse me of flirting with other men and the fact that we were high on drugs some of the times didn’t make it any better. He would hurt me physically sometimes sexually, and at first I thought, maybe it was something I was doing wrong, or that I was meant to go through this because of the wrong things I done in my life. So many times I was going to leave him but then he would sober up and charm me all over again and like a fool I would stay. We would end up having sex, getting high, then it was back to the beatings all over again. I had to finally look at the black eye, bloody nose, busted lips, swollen jaws in the mirror and say to myself NOMORE, that I’m leaving this man, that this man will never be able to lay another finger on me. So that same night I left for my show at the club, he was still sleeping in the bed high on coke or whatever it was he took that day, and leaving everything behind I got my ass up out of there and on the next bus out of town. I didn’t care where it ended up as long as I was far away from Charlie. I had no money, no clothes, food nothing just the clothes on my back. That night was the last time I ever saw him until about three months later when I was in rehab Iooking at the news, and a story came on about a guy who blew his brains out in a nearby motel. Apparently there were evidence of drugs and alcohol everywhere in the room, and I just closed my eyes and thanked god for I knew had I stayed with him the news would’ve been talking about two bodies that were found in a nearby motel.