Big Brother Naija Season 7 winner, Ijeoma Josephina Otabor, popularly known as Phyna has left millions of her fans dumbfounded with her shocking confession.
The reality TV star, in a recent interview with Punchng confessed that she committed abortions when she was age 19 and 24 respectively.
This is, however, coming after the BBNaija star responded to a Twitter user who called her an ‘abortionist’ and she replied and said yes, she had two abortions.
Phyna said; “In my family as a whole, we are very open. People just read meaning to things and say whatever they want, I really do not care. I was just laughing at their responses to me because those that know me know me, I am an open book.”
“I actually responded to that woman when she said ‘I can’t respond to you, you are an abortionist,’ and then I said yes that I have committed abortions.”
“It is fine how people want to see me, I am not ashamed of anything about myself. If I ever make a mistake, I own up to my mistakes.”
“When my dad called me about it, he asked why I said something like that, I just said ‘daddy I learnt it from you oo’.”
“As for my reasons for taking abortion pills, if there are 100 women in Nigeria today, 98 have done abortions. So, no one should judge me.”
“I was in a 12-year relationship then and I was so young. The first abortion was when I was 19; I couldn’t go home to tell my parents that I was pregnant at that age. And the two pregnancies were so early like two to three weeks that I could just use tablets.”
“The second was when I was 24, and I had finished serving then. I was ready to keep it but the relationship was getting toxic. He abused me and always beat me up. I said to myself that I couldn’t do this anymore, so I took it out and that was how I ended the relationship.”
“Why would I consider abortion in my current state? The way I am now, I have money to take care of 10 children, so why? In fact, if my parents were rich at the time of my first pregnancy, I wouldn’t have aborted it.”
“But because I knew I was from a very poor background, we used to eat once a day then, especially in the afternoon and then carry it till the next day. So, keeping the baby then, was no option for me.”