Months after filing a lawsuit against Shia LaBeouf for the abuse he inflicted upon her during their relationship, FKA Twigs, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, has come forward with more harrowing details about her escape from him.

For ELLE's March cover story, Barnett described the “calculated, systematic, tricky, and mazelike”tactics that LaBeouf employed over the course of a year, ultimately alienating her from friends and family, and demolishing her self-confidence to leave him. “If you put a frog in a boiling pot of water, that frog is going to jump out straightaway,” she told the magazine. “Whereas if you put a frog in cool water and heat it up slowly, that frog is going to boil to death. That was my experience being with [LaBeouf].”