Ashanti’s Sister Shia Shares Her Domestic Violence Story For The First time ‘I Had My Teeth Broken’

Ashanti’s Sister Shia opens up about her experience with domestic violence. t was during the 32-year-old’s birthday post in 2020 that she revealed her battered face. Her teeth were knocked out, there was blood coming from her nose, she had a black eye, and she included video clips of her reconstruction surgery on her mouth and jaw.

“I have a past experience with domestic abuse,” Shia told Angie Martinez. “I hadn’t spoken about it. I hadn’t communicated or even ever spoken to anyone outside of my family about what happened… It showed a lot of the real things that took place at that time. I had my teeth broken,” Shia said of her video. “I was engaged.”