TEHRAN (FNA)- Former wife of Omar Mateen, gunman responsible for the US deadliest mass shooting, said the New York-born attacker was an �imbalanced person�.

Yusifiy Sitora who divorced the shooting suspect after four months of marriage in 2009 told reporters �I hear the media trying to make this about Islam � but it is about imbalance, it�s about society, it�s about parenting, accepting each other,� Alwaqt reported.

Omar Mateen was physically abusive towards her, had mental health issues and was �obviously disturbed, deeply, and traumatised�, according to Sitora in Colorado.

Sitora Yusifiy told on Sunday she married to Mateen for four months in 2009 until her family was forced to �literally rescue" she after her imbalanced husband kept her �hostage�.

�In the beginning he was a normal being that cared about family, loved to joke, loved to have fun,� Yusifiy said of Mateen, whom she had met online.

�A few months after we were married I saw his instability, I saw his bipolar, and he would get mad out of nowhere, and that�s when I started worrying about my safety.

�Then after a few months he started abusing me physically, very often, and not allowing me to speak to my family, and keeping me hostage from them,� she said.

She said her family arrived to rescue her from Mateen �and had to pull me out of his arms�.

Mateen was �very short-tempered�, �He would often get into fights and arguments with his parents but because I was the only one in his life most of the violence was towards me at that time,� Yusifuy said.

Mateen had a gun license, owned a silver pistol and �had a history with steroids�, she recalled.

She saw in him signs of �emotional instability, sickness � He was mentally unstable and mentally ill [and] obviously disturbed, deeply, and traumatised�.

He �did follow religion, he did practice and he had his faith� but showed �no sign� of radicalism.

Yusifiy said her former husband, who has been pictured in NYPD shirts, had wanted to be a police officer, had friends in the force and was working at a juvenile correctional facility to gain experience, she said.

The couple were divorced by 2011. �I have cut him off, I�ve blocked everything and my family warned him that if he tried to contact me, they would go to the authorities,� she said.

�I haven�t had any contact with him for seven, eight years.�

Yusifiy said her parents had woken her on Sunday morning with news of the massacre. �The first thing that they told me was that your ex-husband was involved in a mass shooting,� she said.

�I was devastated, shocked and so deeply hurt for the people who lost their loved ones, and the families who are now suffering.�

By Fars News Agency