Ka­ia Sealy says she is “shocked and deeply dis­tressed” by re­ports that she is fac­ing crim­i­nal charges in con­nec­tion with the fa­tal shoot­ing of her part­ner, Joshua Sama­roo, in­sist­ing she re­mains in­no­cent and has been wrong­ly por­trayed.

In a state­ment is­sued Sat­ur­day, Sealy de­scribed the Jan­u­ary 20 in­ci­dent as a life-chang­ing tragedy that “ripped apart” her fam­i­ly, leav­ing her griev­ing Sama­roo, the fa­ther of her five-year-old daugh­ter, while al­so re­cov­er­ing from se­vere in­juries she sus­tained dur­ing the shoot­ing.

“This is not a movie. This is my night­mare of a re­al­i­ty,” she said.