A British woman who says she was in a relationship with controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate has told the BBC how he encouraged her to work for his webcam company, before becoming controlling and violent.
"It's very difficult because I don't feel like a victim - all of the choices I made were of my [own] free will. He didn't bundle me up into a bag, throw me in the back of a lorry and drive me there," says Sophie.
"But he knew what he was doing. At what point does the emotional or psychological manipulation turn into being forced to do something?"
Andrew Tate - and his brother Tristan - are in custody in Romania while police investigate allegations of rape and trafficking.
Prosecutors allege the pair recruited victims by seducing them and falsely claiming they wanted to have a relationship - which police have dubbed "the lover-boy method". Victims were then forced or manipulated into working in their adult entertainment chat rooms.
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Sophie, not her real name, says this is exactly what happened to her. She is now helping prosecutors with their investigation.
She told BBC Radio 4 programmer File on 4 that Tate approached her "completely out of the blue" on Facebook and was very charming.
"He was sort of luring me into believing that he was somebody that I could trust and someone that genuinely wanted to build a connection with me," she explains.
She says their exchanges were typical of people getting to know each other with no red flags. After talking to him online she agreed to travel to his home in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
"I was at a stage of my life where everything felt a bit boring and a bit dull and this idea of an adventure just seemed attractive," she explains.
As their relationship developed, Sophie regularly visited Tate in Romania. He told her he wanted her to be his girlfriend, but soon began asking her to work for him.
"A couple of times he'd said to me, 'You should do it, you'd make a fortune, but you don't have to if you don't want to do it. I make enough money,'" Sophie says.
"But he was always reminding me that the option was there and that progressed into, 'If you love me, you would do it. If you care about me, you would do it… we can make all this money'. And over time, just chipping away at me, eventually he led me to think, 'Maybe he's right, maybe I should be doing it'."
Police have not yet filed any charges against the brothers, who have been in detention, along with two Romanian women, since 29 December. They have denied the allegations against them.
Listen to File on 4 on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 on Tuesday 7 February or on BBC Sounds.