Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

"As soon as we saw this happening with Rahaf, it was that impending sense of deja vu," @ConfessionsExMu says of past stories of Saudi women seeking asylum. "We all reacted very quickly."

"She's only 18, but she's a powerhouse. As difficult as all this is, and as happy as I am she's going to take time away from media ... I'm proud of her and I think she's doing really well," @ConfessionsExMu says of Rahaf Mohammed.

"Women there really have zero control over their lives. And now she has all the freedom in the world she could imagine," @ConfessionsExMu says of Rahaf Mohammed.

"It's unfortunately very common, and it's unfortunately very easy for an abuser to have such control, such power over their victims, especially if that women is a victim," @ConfessionsExMu says. "Rahaf would not even have been able to go to the police."

"I was a victim of abuse for about 17 years," our guest "Laura" says. "I was held and locked up in my room twice by my father, once for eight months and the other was for nine months. ... If I were to eat, it would have to be sneaked to me."

"Deep inside me, I always thought there would be a chance that my father would change, but I realized that abusers are made abusers no matter what," our guest "Laura" says. She fled Saudi Arabia in 2013.