A YOUNG mum has revealed the terrifying abuse she endured for five years at the hands of her TikTok influencer girlfriend after she secretly filmed her during a brutal attack. Lauren Javens, 22, believed she was filming her own death as she captured Hollie Hanson spitting vile death threats as she strangled her. But the act of bravery resulted in the influencer being caged for the years of torment she'd inflicted - including setting Lauren on fire and smashing vodka bottles over her head.

Hanson, a social media star who has racked up hundreds of thousands of views, was jailed last month after admitting to controlling and coercive behaviour, threats to kill and assault by beating. Speaking about her horrific ordeal for the first time, Lauren told The Sun: “I want other people to know that there is light at the end of the tunnel. “For five years Hollie convinced me that she was the only person that will ever love me in this world. But really that was manipulation.

“She was just abusing me all along. The person I loved was my abuser. “If by speaking out I can help just one more person, then it is worth it.". Hanson, 26, subjected Lauren to a brutal campaign of physical and emotional torment which began shortly after the pair first met in 2019. Lauren was just 17 when 20-year-old Hollie banned her from using her phone, monitored her use of social media and stopped her from seeing friends and family.

Recounting her ordeal, Lauren said: “We got together straight away, as soon as we met. “I’d just turned 17, and she was my first love. I’d always wanted to be with her – she was quite well-known to people I knew, so I was head over heels when we got together. Women's Aid has this advice for victims and their families:. If you are a ­victim of domestic abuse, SupportLine is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm to 8pm on 01708 765200. The charity’s email support ­service is open weekdays and weekends during the crisis – messageinfo@supportline.org.uk.

Women’s Aid provides a live chat service - available weekdays from 8am-6pm and weekends 10am-6pm. You can also call the freephone 24-hour ­National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247. “I just thought she couldn't do anything wrong. Then she started changing when we moved in together. “When she’d had a drink, she’d argue with me over irrelevant things. I never argued back because I thought it was just the drink.”.

Hollie’s need for control quickly became apparent - Lauren was told that the couple would share just one phone. She was told she couldn’t have her own social media profile and was ordered to hand over all her passwords. She destroyed every connection I had – I was pregnant, alone, and completely dependent on her. Lauren said: “This was three months into the relationship. I thought that’s what I needed to do to reassure her.

"Looking back, they were the first steps to controlling every part of my life. “But I was so young and so in love with her at this point I couldn’t see it.”. Lauren described how Hollie quickly isolated her from family and friends, making her block their numbers and cutting her off completely. When Hanson was jailed for driving offences in 2020, Lauren fell pregnant in a short-lived relationship.

The pair reconnected upon her release from jail with Hollie soon breaking her promise of a fresh start for the couple. Lauren said: “She didn’t like that I had a child with someone else. The thought of my baby having a dad made her sick. “She destroyed every connection I had – I was pregnant, alone, and completely dependent on her. “She spent my pregnancy telling me I shouldn’t have the baby.

“She was always jealous and even when I was giving birth she was whispering in my ear ‘if this kid looks like his dad I'm leaving you’. One of the most shocking incidents came shortly after Lauren’s son Enzo was born in 2021. She said: “When he was two weeks old, she burnt everything he owned. “She threw it all in a fire bin in the garden – everything was gone. Every single thing he owned.”.

The physical abuse sustained by Lauren saw her punched, beaten and even wounded. In January 2020, Hanson assaulted Lauren with a vodka bottle, knocking her unconscious before slashing at her leg. Too scared to report the incident, Lauren told medics at hospital that she had accidentally cut herself on a shard of glass. Lauren said: “She knocked me clean out. “When I came to, she was holding me in her arms, but I had four gashes on my legs from where she’d attacked me while I was unconscious.

“I thought if I told the doctors what really happened then I’d have nowhere to live – I relied on her for everything.”. In another incident, Hanson poured a jerry can of fuel on Lauren before setting it alight with a cigarette, causing her thigh-high boots to catch fire. Lauren recalled: “She threw the last bit of her cigarette, and it hit the fuel and there were just flames up my legs. “I managed to put them out but the boots literally melted to my legs.