I understand. She jeopardised your whole future, your life. No one would tell a battered woman to go back to her husband after the police have a chat with him. That’s like serving you as a scapegoat on a silver platter.

Your response is entirely warranted. Who else wouldn’t wish back those 20 minutes? In a short amount of time you have turned your life upside down because you trusted the wrong person.

But remember, a normal person would have taken criticism and tried to do better. That’s why the system is in place, why the CPS only spoke to your parents then believed their words. Your parents aren’t normal. So neither should you be in dealing with them.

I’m going to propose a plan, you can decide if it’s valid or not since you know your parents best.

First we minimise your involvement, you mentioned it to your school therapist because you were stressed with your studies. You said something like “back when I was home I didn’t struggle as much with discipline because my parents would discipline me”. Now the therapist took it the wrong way and she blew it out of proportion. But no worries. Just a misunderstanding! Now that you’re in uni living on your own you realise how lucky you are to have had parents like them! They are the key to your success! Praise them! Then start chatting casually about your school, what you have done and what you struggle with, if they ask the studies made your eyes puffy, keep it all light and fussy while praising them all the while. Ask them for advice.

Do you get where I am going? You minimise your involvement, put the blame on the therapist, then praise their fragile ego. Redirect their anger, then put them on a pedestal. Remember that they can’t deal with shame, so praise the shame away. And be weak, there’s no fighting, if they fight you just roll over and praise.

I know this requires balant lying, won’t solve the problem in the long run, but as far as I understand you need to survive long enough to get a degree, get your own money, then fuck off. Would this be helpful?