Pilar Sanders Says Deion Once Choked Her In Front of TV Show Producers

In an exclusive interview with Tanya Williams (who made a few appearances on Basketball Wives LA and has her own personal story of surviving domestic abuse from her long-time NFL’er boyfriend/baby-daddy), Pilar Sanders alleges that her estranged husband, Deion Sanders, was not only physically abusive to her in private during their marriage….but also in front of other people. In her interview, she explained:

“He did it in front of two of our producers on our show, Primetime Love … It’s so idiotic and its funny and its not funny. During the shooting of it, I have a very light personality, with that, there were a lot of parts that were just naturally funny and it just kinda happened. So he called shooting down and he called a meeting with myself and two producers from Los Angeles and we went to our back room where the sitting area is – he said “there has to be a good cop and a bad cop and there is only one comedian here and the comedian is me.” I just started laughing and said, “Oh my God you are ridiculous” and I say, “I can’t help it if I’m funnier than you”. Then he leaped across the table and grabbed my neck and squeezed it to the point that I thought that he poked a hole in my trachea. The two producers didn’t know what to do. They couldn’t get him off of me. They couldn’t do anything so I started kicking him in his groin. That’s the only thing that got him off of me … There were other times when he grabbed me and ripped jewelry … When he was verbally abusive, I didn’t recognize it as abuse. I took his nasty behavior as his personality, I just thought he was a really mean jerk. He was just rude to people because he’s rude to a lot more people than me.”

Yikes! Read her full interview here.