Twitch streamer Amouranth ‘in search of authorized and emotional counsel’ following on-stream home abuse allegations
On: October 19, 2022
Two days after revealing that she is married and accusing her husband of home abuse, streamer Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa says she has regained management of her funds and social media accounts, and is now “free.”
Siragusa, one of many highest-profile streamers on Twitch, alleged throughout an early-morning stream on October 16 that her husband managed her funds, pushed her to stream lengthy hours in Twitch’s scorching tub class, and even threatened to kill her canines. At one level through the stream, she unmuted her microphone whereas in a name along with her husband; he will be heard insulting her, calling her a liar, and demanding that she depart the home. She apologized for doing so in her most up-to-date stream, saying that it was “onerous to look at.”
“I did not actually know what else to do, as a result of he was threatening to tweet shit,” Siragusa mentioned, “He was going to tweet reside, I needed to beat him to the punch, however… sorry if I triggered anyone with previous abuse.
“That was truly the primary time that he is ever heard himself on a recording, as a result of as I advised you guys earlier than, beforehand once I recorded him he would simply refuse to take heed to recordings … I believe that when he heard himself on that decision, it actually sunk in how a lot of an asshole he’s. It is like he by no means realized. Fool.”
Siragusa mentioned she now has entry to her funds and social media accounts, and is “in search of authorized and emotional counsel.” She added that her husband is “getting assist.”
Siragusa additionally expressed shock on the stage of assist she’s been proven, even by people who find themselves usually detractors. “There have been so many messages. It is type of loopy,” she mentioned. “I felt so alone for therefore lengthy and now it is like, I can not cease getting folks to speak to me. Not in a foul method, it is only a very massive distinction. I did not suppose folks cared that a lot.”
As for what comes subsequent, Siragusa mentioned she’s “optimistic in regards to the future” and blissful to be “free [and] nonetheless alive.”
“I do not actually know what I’ll do subsequent,” she mentioned. “Hopefully much more animal streams. Going to take time to course of it, I believe. I do not know when or if I will be again to a full-time schedule. A minimum of for now although, I believe I’ll take it simple. And I haven’t got to put on cleavage on daily basis! I can put on garments.”
“I actually do not know what is going on to occur,” she mentioned later within the stream, implying once more that her husband managed her on-screen wardrobe. “I simply hope folks nonetheless watch, with out a lot titty exhibiting.”
