Jodi Arias will be back on the witness stand Tuesday morning in a Phoenix, Arizona courtroom after describing to the jury on Monday an upbringing filled with physical and emotional violence and admitting that she did in fact kill her lover Travis Alexander, although she claims it was in self-defense.

“Yes I did,” Arias said when asked if she killed Alexander. When questioned why, she said, “the simple reason is he attacked me.”

She then explained controversial comments she made during an interview with the TV show Inside Edition, in which she vowed that no jury would convict her, contending she was suicidal at the time.

“I would have been thrown into a padded cell and stripped do