This week the ex-girlfriend of shamed Strictly star Seann Walsh spoke out after he was pictured kissing dance partner Katya Jones.

Actress Rebecca Humphries slammed her ex on Twitter, revealing that he had 'gaslighted' her and branded her a 'psycho' over her suspicions on his relationship with married Katya.

'He aggressively, and repeatedly, called me a psycho/nuts/mental. As he has done countless times throughout our relationship when I've questioned his inappropriate, hurtful behaviour,' she concluded before ditching him.

And now other people have taken to Whisper to share their own experiences of being 'gaslighted', a term used to describe the emotional abuse which occurs when a person's sense of reality is purposefully distorted by the perpetrator.

The term originated from the 1938 play and 1944 film Gas Light which features a husband who systematically torments his wife.

While some users admitted to being left so unsure of their judgment they had to turn to their friends, others revealed they finally felt free after having their feelings validated and leaving their unhealthy relationship.

This week UK Strictly star Seann Walsh's ex-girlfriend Rebecca Humphries revealed he had called her 'crazy' over her suspicions on his relationship with Katya Jones, before ditching him (the former couple are seen together, above)

Following Rebecca Humphries revelation on her Strictly ex, others have taken to Whisper to reveal their own experiences, with one user admitting she finally felt validated that she wasn't 'crazy' after discovering she was being gaslighted

One victim took to Whisper to argue psychological abuse is worse than physical abuse as there is no proof of it, in a gallery of experiences on being gaslighted following Rebecca's revelations on Strictly's Sean

'My thoughts and feelings are valid': One woman hit back after feeling gaslighted at work and in relationships, in the gallery shared after Strictly star Seann Walsh's ex's revelations

Continuing the revealing gallery on people's experiences being gaslighted, one woman took to Whisper to reveal she now had to turn to her best friend to tell her what's true or real

One woman revealed she had stopped trusting her judgement after being 'gaslighted so much she could never tell when she was actually wrong', in the gallery of user's experiences

Continuing the revealing gallery on people's experiences being gaslighted after Strictly Sean Walsh's ex girlfriend spoke out, one woman revealed she had recently discovered it was happening to her

One woman admitted she was led to feeling crazy until the truth was revealed, in the revealing gallery on people's experiences being gaslighted

Continuing the revealing gallery on people's experiences being gaslighted after Strictly Sean Walsh's ex girlfriend spoke out, one woman revealed she was still working to get past her own experience

One woman told how she had spent six years being indoctricated by her ex-husband, in the revealing gallery on people's experiences being gaslighted

Questioning what gaslighting was, one woman questioned whether being made to feel paranoid and crazy fell under the term, in the revealing gallery on people's experiences