Roy Singh, 29, claims his mother and father-in-law struggle to accept their son is gay and only agreed to allow him to marry if his partner appeared as a woman.
He was reportedly told to wear a wig, high heels and make-up for the big day and then faced nine months of abuse and exploitation, driving him to despair and suicide.
But he continues to dress in the same way today, performing in drag to help him deal with the past experience.
The man, of Manchester, says his new mother-in-law started calling him her "daughter-in-law” and made him continue to pretend to be a woman after they got hitched.
He met his future husband when he was 18 and moved to London to live in his family home.
On the wedding day, his husband's mum told guests Mr Singh was an orphaned widow and so had no family. He almost fainted in fear of being found out at the huge ceremony of 450 guests, he claims.
"She said if I wanted to marry him I would have to dress as a woman on the wedding day,” he explained.
"I would also need to pretend to be a woman for a while to convince the community her son isn't gay.”
But the ordeal got worse. The day after the wedding he says he was told he would have to continue dressing in women's clothes and would now be known as Lucky.
"There was a time when I came down in slippers, not really dressed. She said I needed to maintain myself at all times and never come down again like that.”
He says he was treated like a slave in the family home and forced to do 18 hours of chores a day.
He was hardly allowed to see his new husband and was fed only a bowl of Weetabix and a smoothie a day, meaning he lost weight.
The mother cruelly told him he was overweight and stopped him using the toilet so he would often wet himself.
His ordeal got worse still when his own parents found out about the marriage on Facebook after seeing the wedding photos showing him dressed as the bride.
Roy would finally gather enough courage to leave but ended up living at a homeless hostel as he had nowhere to go.
He attempted to take his own life a few months later after finding out his ex was due to re-marry a woman
He was only saved when he was taken to hospital and his parents were called.
"They took me back home,” Roy said. "No matter what, when a parent sees a child in that state it makes them see they have to stand by you.”
He says he still wakes up screaming in the night with flashbacks to the abuse. "I shout ‘I"m not a woman". I never want this to happen to anyone else.”
His ex and former mother-in-law have not been named and Roy says they have now apologised.
