Nigerian actress, Omotola Jalade has recounted how she almost went into prostitution at the age of 12 after losing her father.
Omotola Jalade detailed the life-changing experience in an exclusive interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, where she opened up on effects of losing her father at age 12.
Because she was sent to Kaduna at a young age, she claimed, they never had the chance to develop a close relationship like a father and daughter should. She claimed that, before his death, she barely even knew him.
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In her words,
“I just started to see a crowd when I got to my street and I knew, definitely there’s been a death.
So going through the crowd, the mental process till I got to my compound, and my compound was very big.
And all these people, it was like a movie.
I had to walk through their midst.
And as you’re walking, everyone is turning to look at you, some wailing.”
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She continued,
“Some looking in slow motion, I still remember the feeling.
And I kept thinking, who’s going to greet me first?
Who am I going to strike off the list?
Then I saw my younger brothers.
Then, I walked up the stairs and saw my mom.
Also, then I froze because it now dawned on me that it was my dad.
And so, I didn’t know how to react.”
She added,
“I didn’t know if it was the guilt of me thinking it shouldn’t be him.
I was too young to process it. Or the fact that I have truly missed him, and now that he’s dead; I won’t see him again? Or that I’m angry I didn’t get to spend enough time with him. He didn’t spend enough time with me because I was shipped to Kaduna.
So, I didn’t know how I was feeling. And so, I was just there, numb. I was really numb.”
Having to face such reality at such a young age, according to the mother of four, “nearly broke” her because she became confident; she attributes her fearlessness and confidence to the “life-changing” occurrence.
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