TV REPORTER TELLS OWN SHOCKING STORY

Wound up shot by abusive ex

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TOUGH-AS-NAILS reporter Winnie Dortch is making headlines herself as she reveals the harrowing domestic-violence nightmare that left her fighting for her life.

Winnie, 34, who now works at WGN-TV in Chicago, recounts how she reconnected with her ex-high school sweetheart Bryant Carter, 34, in 2018. The two began a six-year relationship, which included welcoming a daughter, Kaelie.

At times, Bryant could be “nice, sweet [and] funny,” Winnie says.

But a dark undercurrent of violence and physical and verbal abuse clouded their affair — a pattern that escalated after he moved in with her and Kaelie, who were then living in Cleveland.