https://grapevine.is/news/2017/06/26/hafthor-the-mountains-ex-girlfriend-claims-he-violently-abused-her/?fbclid=IwAR08S9Q-zpJXSaG9G3TUkJ5RFZfkLDQgy7qZXBdkcSG7Vy4MobmbD4EGk9s
In a Matt Canning-esque interview Fréttablađiđ published this weekend, Thelma Björk Steimann, the ex girlfriend of Hafţór ‘The Mountain’ Júlíusson, claimed to have been fearful of her life after the first time he assaulted her. The interview follows reports that he had assaulted another ex girlfriend Andrea Sif Jónsdóttir.
Hafţór and Thelma, who have a child together, started dating in the spring of 2007, when she was eighteen–after he had persistently pursued her for six months. According to Thelma, Hafţór was with another woman at the time, but that he had ended that relationship because the woman was “fat , smelled like Primemuscle and was ugly.”
Jealousy and violence
Soon after the two got involved, Thelma claims his jealousy had gotten out of hand, and that he had demanded she end any form of communication with other men.
“Hafţór deleted all my male friends from my phonebook and from MSN messenger, so I couldn’t contact them anymore” she told Fréttablađiđ. Early in their relationship the two went on a trip to Benidorm, where they ran into some of her old, male school friends.
“Our first night we went to a club called Joker and there we met a lot of guys I’d gone to school with,” she said. “Hafţór got mad with jealousy and hammered our table so most of our drinks fell on the floor.”
The two then argued when they got back to the hotel, where Hafţór told her that she could not talk to other men again. There, she claims, Hafţór physically assaulted her for the first time.
“Our room was on the twentieth floor and he threatened to throw me off the balcony. He pushed me, shoved me and slapped me,” she said. “The day after I was so afraid that everyone had heard what had happened, but he apologised and said it “would never happen again”. I accepted the apology, what else could I do? I was stuck in Benidorm for another week and didn’t want to ruin the trip for the other people we were with.”
The escalating violence stemming from Lakehead Univesity
After the trip the two moved to Selfoss, because Hafţór had been accepted into a basketball training academy, and there she claims the violence became serious.
“He would smack me, push me into things and break stuff. Many times he grabbed my neck so hard I passed out. Sometimes he would hold me down with one hand and punch me with the other,” she said.
According to Thelma, a female superintendent lived at the dorm where they were staying and on many occasion the woman had to intervene to stop the violence. Fréttablađiđ contacted the woman and she confirmed Thelma’s account.
