I was sexually molested as a child –TY Bello (Video)

Former member of girl group KUSH, TY Bello on Tuesday told Kemi Adetiba in the third edition of her ‘King Women’ series aired on Accelerate TV, about how she was sexually molested as a child.

The singer and photographer in the no-holds-barred interview with Kemi revealed that the experience had a negative effect on her during her formative years as it made her feel dirty and used.

“I was sexually abused as a child and because of this, I felt like there was something ugly about me that made me encounter this. This was not the abuser’s fault, this was me,” TY Bello said.

Continuing, she added that; “I used to see other girls as flowers and I saw myself as dirty cement, hard and ugly. I never felt beautiful, everything was wrong with me, I was hairy and it was a problem.

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“I always attributed everything that was about me to be the reason someone took advantage of me. I thought there was something wrong with me because if the others girls were like me perhaps they would be dirty like me but they were flowers,” she said.

The proud mother of twins however said she was able to contain the trauma after she met a friend who told her God was going to wash away whatever dirt she felt about herself and grew more confident later in life when she discovered four girls in her class had suffered the same fate.

“When a friend told me about salvation, she told me old things would be passed away and all things will become new. It was as if God could wash away that stench and I would become a girl because I didn’t feel like a girl.

“I was shocked when I grew up and found that one out of every three or four girls in my secondary school had suffered the same thing and I could tell them the same thing… that old things can pass away.

“It was a relief to find that I was not the only one and a shock that nobody talks about it. That’s why salvation worked, I had a daddy and I was going to be a flower,” TY Bello said.

 

 

 

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