Former NFL player Kroy Biermann posted a lengthy Instagram message explaining the aftermath of years married to Kim Zolciak.
Former Real Housewives of Atlanta and Don’t Be Tardy personality posed in a chair with his head down. He paired the morose photo of Isaac Mathers’s I’m Proud You Stayed.
The post:
“I’ve wrestled with this post for days, trying to find the words to communicate the weight and complexity of what I’ve lived through. How do you put years of confusion, pain, and survival into a few paragraphs? How do you explain what it’s like to be trapped in something that looks like love but feels like you’re slowly being ripped apart?”
“There was a time I didn’t think I’d make it. The pain was so constant, the confusion, the isolation, the gaslighting. It felt like my soul was caving in. I was trapped in deliberately orchestrated chaos, yet somehow I was the one blamed for the storm.
Every word I said was twisted. Every effort I made was never enough. And eventually, I started to believe, maybe I was the problem.”
“There were nights I prayed for it all to just stop, even if that meant I stopped.
When you’ve been broken down long enough, death can start to sound like peace.”
Kroy came out the other side:
“But God. God met me in that darkness.”
“When I didn’t have the strength to fight for myself, He fought for me. He reminded me that my life still had purpose, that my story wasn’t over. And in the middle of all the pain and abuse, I heard His whisper … You are mine. You are not what they said about you.”
“If you’re in that place right now, where the weight feels unbearable, please, cry out to Him. You don’t have to have the right words. You don’t even have to believe perfectly. Just call His name. He will meet you there. He is the way out.”
“I’m still healing. I still have scars. But I’m here, and I’m proud I stayed. Because staying doesn’t mean staying in the abuse. It means staying alive. Staying faithful. Staying open to what God can do with your pain.”
“You are not alone; you are not too broken; you are not forgotten. God’s not done with your story.”
