“Growing up, my dad was extremely abusive,” Huda, 24, alleged on the Thursday, July 17, episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “He was very abusive toward my mother, toward me and my siblings. A vivid memory I have as a kid … I remember hearing my dad beating the s* out of my mom in the room. Someone finally got the door open, and I just remember seeing my mom’s face. Her glasses were broken, and then I see him snatch her head back and slam the door.”
The Peacock personality has since ceased communication with her father in light of his alleged actions. (Huda’s father, who has not been publicly identified, has not addressed the accusations.)
“I haven’t talked to my dad in eight years. I stopped talking to him when I was 16. There’s a really valid reason as to why I’m not speaking to him,” she said. “There were a lot of times where I was alone with my dad, and there are things that my family doesn’t believe me about.”
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Huda added, “I kept a lot of things to myself, and then there was a point where I got really scared. I remember calling my mom, saying, ‘Please pick me up, please pick me up.’ She was like, ‘What’s wrong? I can’t. I have to get you tomorrow.’ She was working three or four jobs.”
At one point, Huda would “lock [herself] in the bathroom” while her dad would go work in his office.
“The floor would creak sometimes, so I was so scared [he’d hear me]. I tiptoed out and I closed the door really quietly,” Huda recalled. “I was like, ‘Please get out, like, get me out of here.’ And to this day, I don’t think anyone in my family believes anything that I say about that.”
Huda further admitted that her accusations were likely “hard [for her mom and siblings] to believe.”
“I just accepted that,” she said of her family’s disbelief. “I know what was going on, and I had listened to podcasts about certain things leading up to a lot with my dad. It made me realize, like, I don’t want to say grooming, but there are a lot of things that were happening.”
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Huda did not detail her specific accusations but stressed that she has “no idea the reasoning behind” his alleged actions.
“My dad hasn’t remarried [or] nothing, like, I have no idea the reasonings behind it,” she said. “So, I never really had a father figure growing up in that way — at all.”
Huda tried to find solace in school, where she was always “unapologetically” herself.
“That didn’t resonate with a lot of people,” Huda claimed. “I got bullied in school. When I was in middle school, there was a point where I wanted to take my own life. I did not want to live anymore.”
Huda also disclosed her alleged childhood abuse to the Love Island USA casting team when she applied for season 7.
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“When I was with the psychologist, I talked to her about all these things,” she recalled of joining the reality TV dating show. “I was just crying ’cause it’s like you really live it when you talk about it.”
Huda made it to the finale of Love Island USA, where she was coupled up with now-ex Chris Seeley, but the duo called it quits before the winner was crowned.
“Everyone has their opinions. I know exactly how I want it to be treated in a relationship and I’m not going to settle,” Huda exclusively told Us Weekly after the finale. “I will never sit here and just accept [whatever] as he says, shut up to me. That’s another thing, Chris would want me to shut up. I don’t like that.”
She added, “I’m not letting a man talk to me like that. I’ve had past relationships do that. It triggers me. There’s a lot of little things that weren’t shown on camera that led me to my decision, because why the hell would I have a man talk to me that way?”
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential support. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org.
