Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson has revealed that, Sarkodie left her to her fate in the most difficult period of her life.

Recounting this in her memoir, she revealed that “I was given an injection that was supposed to numb the pain, but I could still feel it. I could feel the screwing inside me. I even thought my entire womb was being removed. Whatever it was, my only prayer was for a successful outcome.”

According to Yvonne Nelson in her book, from the health facility, she went back to her friend’s hostel.

“As had happened with my Nov-Dec exams after school, I hoped and prayed that I would be lucky with this second attempt. The pain, again, was intense and I bled profusely. I felt worse because Sarkodie left me to my fate in the most difficult period. He did not call to check up on me or find out how the procedure had gone,” she revealed.

She noted that having an abortion is one of the most regrettable mistakes in her life.

” If the clock of life could be rewound to my younger self, I would keep it. But the benefit of hindsight is sometimes not useful because the lessons learned cannot be applied retrospectively,” she emotionally revealed.

She went futher to reveal that “I don’t know how others who have been through it feel, but my abortion haunted me for years. For instance, whenever I visited the gynaecologist and had to fill out a form, there was a place on the form that asked whether I had had an abortion before.”

“Knowing that it was important to be truthful in my disclosure to health professionals, I had to tick the abortion box. It was not just a tick, but the disclosure of my moment of shame in a judgmental society, sharing a dreaded piece of secret with people whose perception of me might never be the same,” she noted in the chapter eight of her book, I AM NOT YVONNE NELSON.

To be continued

By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme