A TikTok star who controversially married a traveller has told of the terrifying moment five masked men beat her and threatened to kill her in an armed raid.<br /><br />Nikia Marshall, 24, a gorger - or ‘settled person’ who married a traveller - said she was beaten by the balaclava-clad men, who were armed with crowbars and a gun.<br /><br />The former glamour model - whose husband Michael, a cousin of Paris Fury, was at work at the time - says she only survived by fleeing upstairs with her dogs.<br /><br />And she believes she may have been targeted by members of the traveller community who are hostile to her because she's seen as an 'outsider'.<br /><br />She said: “I think it’s because I’m an influencer online, and I post very controversial videos. I’m a bit of a comedian, but I’ve got dark humour. <br /><br />"I’m married to a gypsy as well. Three years ago, there were arguments with gypsies up, down, left and right. I know that this was a gypsy-related thing.”<br /><br />Chilling footage shows the balaclava-clad men had rushed to her address in Doncaster, South Yorks, and smashed the front door with a crowbar on Monday (20).<br /><br />Nikia said she was asleep on the sofa at around 5.30pm when the raid started and had then confronted two intruders who broke through her glass back door.<br /><br />She was hit by one of the men before fleeing with her two dogs, Bella and Princess, upstairs while they did ‘£100,000’ worth of damage to her kitchen and living room.<br /><br />And as she looked out of her bedroom window below, the group's ‘chubby’ ringleader made a chilling threat to ‘shoot her’ and ‘finish the job’.<br /><br />She said: “All I heard was popping sounds – bang, bang, bang. <br /><br />“Two attackers got in at the back, and there were three at the front. One hit me, and I pushed him off and continued to run up the stairs.<br /><br />“I just remember hanging out the window because I thought if they come up and they try and kill me, I can jump out my window.<br /><br />“When I was hanging out the window, the main guy looked up at me and he said, ‘I’m going to come back and I’m going to finish the job – and I’m going to shoot you’. <br /><br />She added: "One of them had a gun as well."<br /><br />Nikia sprang to fame in 2021 when she fronted a six-part YouTube series called ‘I Married A Traveller’ with her roofer husband, Michael, 38.<br /><br />The show revealed how she was branded a ‘prostitute’ and a ‘home-wrecker’ - and was rejected by her traveller in-laws due to not being a member of the community.<br /><br />She also shamed men who later took to social media to pester her for sex, saying she was at one point getting 20 requests a day to cheat on her husband.<br /><br />Nikia, who now runs the fashion store Red Hot Ltd on TikTok, said she had reported the attack to the police, who were now installing panic buttons in her property.<br /><br />But she said her love for her two eight-year-old chihuahuas, Bella and Princess, had stopped her from getting seriously injured in the attack.<br /><br />She said: “My dogs probably saved me from getting really badly hurt because I'm a bit of a fighter.
