George Zimmerman's Wife Speaks Out: Marriage on the Rocks After Terror of Living in Hiding

George Zimmerman's wife Shellie, who was sentenced Wednesday to a year’s probation and 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor perjury charge, revealed in an ABC News interview Thursday that she'll "have to think about" whether she wants to stay married to her husband.

George Zimmerman arrives in Seminole circuit court with his wife Shellie on the 11th day of his murder trial in Sanford, Fla., June 24, 2013 (Getty Images)

The couple has been living "like gypsies" for the past year and a half, Shellie Zimmerman said, after her husband fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in what a jury ultimately decided was self-defense.

"We've lived in a 20-foot trailer in the woods, scared every night that someone would go and find us and that it would be horrific," she told ABC.

Reflecting on the countless death threats they've received and all they've been through, Shellie Zimmerman added: “I can’t tell you how many nights I’ve gone or laid awake at night just thinking that I wish to God the circumstances had been different.”

Christi O’Connor, the investigative journalist who sat down with Shellie Zimmerman, added that George's wife said he has "beaten down her self-esteem."

And while Zimmerman said "of course" she wants to have children, she's not sure she wants to have them with George.

"Are you still together?" the interviewer asked.

"I'm not going to answer that," Zimmerman responded.

But while their marriage may be strained, when asked whether her husband was capable of profiling and killing Trayvon Martin in cold blood, Shellie Zimerman flatly replied: "No...that's just not his way."

Shellie Zimmerman said she's certain of that point, even though she wasn't home the night Martin was shot. She said she was staying at her father's house because she had gotten into a fight with George.

But she still feels terrible about what happened to Trayvon Martin.

In a message to Martin's family, Shellie said: "I'm so deeply sorry for their loss.  I can't even begin to understand the grief that a parent experiences when they lose a child."

Watch video from the interview courtesy of ABC News, below:

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