'I suffered sexual abuse in high school & physical abuse in university – Lola Omotayo

'I suffered sexual abuse in high school & physical abuse in university – Lola Omotayo

'I suffered sexual abuse in high school & physical abuse in university – Lola Omotayo While addressing a group of young women at ... 22:31

'I suffered sexual abuse in high
school & physical abuse in
university – Lola Omotayo
While addressing a group of young women at
Kinabuti's Dare2Dream Master Class event which
happened in Lagos recently, Peter Okoye's wife
and mother of 2, Lola Omotayo revealed that she
suffered sexual abuse by a priest when she was
in secondary school and beaten black and blue by
a boyfriend in the university. She said she never
told anyone about the molestation because she
didn't believe anyone would believe her
"I couldn’t tell anyone because everyone
would blame me, so I carried on the guilt
and bitterness with me for years. I was filled
with hate and I became an angry person, I
was rebellious, I didn’t want to listen to
anybody…and because I wanted to be
expelled from school to avoid seeing this
person, I would do so many terrible things,
everything around me was just so negative, I
felt I wasn’t good enough."
‘I moved on to the university, met the love
of my life and I’m like, okay this guy is cool,
he loves me but he started to abuse me. I
was beaten black and blue all the time, in
front of friends, in public and at a point, I
felt, you know what, I am not worthy enough,
there is nothing about me that is nice,
nobody loves me but I hid this from my
family. I felt like a loser, so it was hard for
me to focus. But one day, I woke up and
said I am going to change my story and I
dumped that person, focused on my
education and decided to be serious and be
something. I decided to get a job and go to
school full time in America.’
She said she worked hard to make her own
money so she could be independent and not have
to rely on any man. She said being independent
and making her own money helped her build her
confidence and pushed to achieve more in life.
She then talked about her husband, Peter Okoye
"Look at my husband, when I met him,
peeps were like what are you doing with
him, he has nothing but I stood my ground
and chose to stick with him because he had
a dream. He and his twin brother did not let
their dream die, they worked hard, look at
them today! I stuck by him because he had
focus and drive and today I am happy, I
have a good life, we are happy and we have
got a beautiful family. No one can make you
a loser.’.