'Supergirl's Melissa Benoist Opens Up About Being 'A Survivor Of Domestic Violence'

While she doesn't name the partner who allegedly abused her, she does describe him as "charming, funny, manipulative, devious" and mentions that he was younger than she was at the time.

Melissa then says the violence began five months into the relationship, and described certain acts that were allegedly committed. She described the first incident of her partner throwing a smoothie at her face.

“The stark truth is I learned what it felt like to be pinned down and slapped repeatedly, punched so hard I felt the wind go out of me, dragged by my hair across pavement, head-butted, pinched until my skin broke, shoved against he wall so hard the drywall broke, choked," she says in the video.

She also revealed that over time she also became violent and fought back.

Melissa described an incident where her partner allegedly threw a phone at her face, which broke her nose and almost ruptured her eye, and explained that this was the final straw.

"This was too far, I couldn’t flush this one down,” she said. “None of this is salacious news, it was my reality, what I went through caused a tectonic shift on my outlook on life.”

“Work in general was a touchy subject, he didn’t want me ever kissing or even having flirtatious scenes with men which was very hard for me to avoid. So I began turning down auditions, job offers, test deals, friendship because I didn’t want to hurt him,” Melissa revealed.

She shared the statistic that one in four women in the United States aged 18 and older will experience severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime. "I want the statistics to change," she said.

You can watch her emotional video on her Instagram here.

If you or anyone you know is experiencing domestic violence, you can reach out to the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.