Tom Talker, the daughter of former Israel national team player – Ofer Talker, bravely revealed that she had been abused. In a story she uploaded to her Instagram account, 19-year-old Talker shared photos in which she was bruised and told about the difficult period in her life. “I do not know how to find the words. I do not know at all if this is the right thing to do, but I felt the need to share this hell I have been going through for two years.”
Talker continued: “I got up in fear every day, I was not allowed to upload pictures so that God forbid a man would not start with me. I was not allowed to make a follow-up to anyone, God forbid no one would talk to me. From fear and frustration and gloomy state of mind, I went back every time, hoping it would be good, I tried to give good, but every time I was guilty because I ‘disgusted a person’, betrayed me and asked for forgiveness, humiliated me and asked for forgiveness, I was made fun of and I apologized because I felt guilty. I got up for a curse attack every morning and prayed at night that it would not last tomorrow either. To sit in front of the phone and see a person crying like that and burst out laughing is not to be called even a human being. They’ll tell you how much you’re rubbish, it’s bad. I’m writing this in tears, it’s hard for me because I never thought it would come to me. You live with a human being and you do not know with whom you’re going to sleep in bed. I can, but girls who read it – everything I did, just do the opposite. “
Tom’s mother, Aviva Tavori, commented on her Instagram account and wrote: “My daughter is 19 years old, not a minor, and I fought and did everything possible and I will not elaborate. I did not have to, because I have no right to intervene as she claimed in front of me. And also her father, who we are always for, who fights for her and there is no person in the world that I love more than her, but it is impossible to help a person who does not want to help himself. “