Christina AguileraChristina Aguilera has claimed that homes on US Army bases are rife with domestic abuse.

As her dad was a sergeant in the army, Christina lived on bases until her parents split when she was seven years old.

She told USA Weekend magazine: “We lived on Army bases when I was little, and it [domestic violence] was happening a lot.”

“The [military police] would come, but a lot of them were doing the same things [to their wives and kids].”

“I was surrounded with domestic violence, not only in my home but my friends’.”

Christina believes it’s important to highlight the issue to get it into the open and for herself, “it’s therapeutic for me to talk about it. It gives me a reason to understand why I went through what I did”.