Influencer Haley Kalil (a.okay.a. Hayley Baylee) is opening up about her expertise with home violence — and the way her social media presence helped her escape an abusive ex.
“I’ve dealt, in fact, as any lady has, with plenty of emotional abuse in relationships, dishonest, all of that stuff. However no, one in every of my exes was bodily abusive,” Kalil, 33, mentioned in the course of the Tuesday, January 6, episode of Amanda Hirsch’s “Not Skinny however Not Fats” podcast, revealing that she was within the abusive relationship when she posted her first viral TikTok video, a New York Metropolis house tour, in 2022.
“That’s what I used to be going by means of in the course of the house tour,” she continued, “And that’s why, in my first [‘Billionaire Boyfriend’ video], I’ve a solid on my wrist as a result of, yeah, home violence.” (Kalil’s house tour impressed her to make a fictional POV sequence the place she pretended to be the stay-at-home girlfriend of a billionaire.)
Kalil mentioned that she finally ended up submitting home violence prices in opposition to her ex, whom she didn’t title on the podcast.
“And we’re good. I imply, he hasn’t come again into my life. I’m actually grateful for that,” she mentioned. “I hope, I actually hope, and I say this in truth, that I hope that the success I’ve had after that, that he sees, as a result of he had an actual hatred, I feel, for ladies, simply from his previous [and] that he sees that he ought to deal with girls higher as a result of we’re able to much more than he ever thought we have been.”
Kalil referred to as the connection a “exhausting time” in her life and mentioned she credit the ladies within the feedback sections of her movies with serving to her achieve the braveness to depart her ex.
“I credit score them with saving my life. Fully and completely. As a result of I by no means felt seen by girls,” she mentioned, including that the sort feedback from followers led her to “decenter a person in my life who was doing horrible issues to me.”
Haley’s house tour video got here shortly after her divorce from ex-husband Matt Kalil, which was finalized in 2022. Nonetheless, the social media persona has made it clear to followers that she isn’t referring to Matt, 36, in her movies discussing poisonous exes or home violence.
“We have been married for seven years, and he’s nonetheless one in every of my closest buddies,” she mentioned throughout a June 2024 episode of the “Submit Run Excessive” podcast. “Love him to dying. He has a child [and I’m] so glad for him.” (Following his divorce from Haley, Matt married mannequin Keilani Asmus in 2024. The pair share one son.)
In November 2025, Haley opened up about why her marriage to the previous NFL participant ended, making headlines for the NSFW purpose: the dimensions of his manhood.
“[This happened] our entire marriage,” she mentioned throughout a Twitch livestream. “I used to be going to attempt all of it — therapists, medical doctors [and I] appeared up lipo-type s***, what I imply? That’s why it’s kinda humorous. It’s like my life is a comedy, and it type of writes itself.”
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Haley continued, “It was, like, he’s .01 p.c of the inhabitants. We tried every thing [and it was] unimaginable except you’re going to be in tears.”
The TikToker later clarified that there was extra to their divorce than issues of their intercourse life.
“I care deeply about respecting his privateness and the integrity of what we shared collectively,” she advised TMZ Sports activities in an announcement. “Throughout [my] livestream, [I] talked about a lot greater than what’s being highlighted — the love in our marriage, the expansion we skilled, the depth of our connection.”
Haley continued, “It’s unlucky that just one fragment is being amplified as a result of it doesn’t seize the total story of how significant issues have been to me. I hope [the] hour-and-half-long dialog displays greater than a humorous soundbite.”
In case you or somebody is experiencing home violence, please name the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential assist.
