Tara Pavlovic and her ex-fiance Sam Cochrane are in the midst of a serious social media battle, and it doesn’t look like it’s ending any time soon.
On Monday, Sam, 31, detailed the alleged verbal and physical abuse he suffered at the hands of former fiancee Tara, 28, in an exclusive story for Woman’s Day.
Today, after two days of bitter swipes on social media from both parties, Tara has admitted to hitting Sam.
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In happier times, Sam and Tara became engaged on Bachelor In Paradise.
Replying to comments on an Instagram post, Tara responded to Sam’s allegations claiming she did hit him, but after he taunted her over his ex-girlfriend.
Sharing her version of events, Tara wrote:
He left me at our engagement party after he accused me of hooking up with his friend Stu. He said in the article he left because I was drunk — NOT TRUE.
When I got back to the hotel he wasn’t there. When he got back I asked where he was and he said he was with his French ex f–k buddy (who he used to tell me sex stories about) and insinuated that he cheated on me (he would often play games like this to make me jealous).
When he told me he cheated on me, I hit him and cried and told him to get out of my hotel. After he realised that the game backfired and I was done, he told me he didn’t touch her and just went to her house to help her find her cat (that was the emergency he spoke of).
He pushed me. He pushed me every day. There are two sides to every story. I do not condone violence, I’m not a violent person. This was so out of character for me, which is why I left when he begged me back for weeks.
If I was that bad, surely the guy wouldn’t beg for me back. I was in an emotional abusive relationship with a narcissist. Only someone who has been through that can relate to how f–king bad it is, and how you can be pushed over the edge.
Tara and Sam are currently on separate holidays, yet are posting blows online about each other.
To add more fuel to the fire, a new video of Sam was shared on social media today, showing him begging for Tara to forgive him through tears.
The video was posted by Tara’s former Bachelor cast-mate Sian Kelly, who took to her Instagram stories with two clips taken from a 27-minute long video.
In the video, Sam pleads for Tara’s forgiveness: “I’m sorry I didn’t come to bed with you. But If I had you back, I would do that.”
“Because it’s so important and you loved it. You needed to be held. I played stupid games,” he wept.
He added: “I’ll let go now, and I’m sorry for the messages in the nights.”
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Former Bachelor star Sian is a friend of Tara’s. Sian’s brother reportedly dated Tara prior to her relationship with Sam.
The couple broke up in June and since have had a very explosive battle in public. However, the feud intensified on Monday, when Sam spoke to Woman’s Day about how Tara’s partying and drinking led to abuse.
“At weekends it was this binging thing and then it would be the put-downs and the verbal attacks.”
“But the next day the Tara I really liked was back and she didn’t remember what she’d said, so we’d recover,” Sam said.
The trouble got worse in early May after the finale aired.
In five weeks their relationship was over.
“As soon as the show wrapped everything spiralled. The relationship took a back seat, the drinking kicked in and then the violence started.”
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