reports say was drug-induced<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cAnd I was so broken from a lot of things that happened with us in the marriage,\u201d Simmons said.<\/p>\n
Simmons and X were married from 1999 to 2014. They met as teenagers, both coming from families who had more or less abandoned them, as articulated by Simmons. She told Martinez that at 14, her mother had left her and that her father was verbally abusive. DMX, or Earl, became everything to her.<\/p>\n
\u201cEarl almost played every role that you can imagine, from husband, boyfriend, best friend, God. Protector.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s because of this all-encompassing relationship with DMX, which Simmons called \u201ca project to get away from Tashera,\u201d that she stayed as long as she did. Even during the worst betrayals, she tried to make their marriage work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to save Earl,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cI saw the road that Earl was going down. It got very unhealthy for me in this aspect of [him] just starting to step out of our marriage and creating a bunch of different families.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simmons said, \u201cHad God not stripped me from that relationship, that marriage, I\u2019d have probably\u00a0been in a Looney Tune home,\u201d and that now she isn\u2019t afraid to speak about what she has been through, because \u201cTo keep everything all bottled up and try to wear a mask like everything is good is not the move.\u201d \u00a0 <\/p>\n
When asked how she would speak to another young woman in a similar situation that she was in, Simmons, put it simply: You have to walk away.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou cannot fix nobody,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is nothing that you can do for someone who has been broken, who\u2019s bitter, who doesn\u2019t have the right perspective for their self, there\u2019s no saving. There\u2019s no saving them.\u201d<\/p>\n
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