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“I Never Did Any Abortion At Age 19 & 24. It Was All A Prank”- Phyna Says In Latest Interview With Uche Maduagwu
Yesterday, Phyna, the winner of Big Brother Naija season 7, gave more details after admitting to having done two abortions. However, after 24 hours, in a phone call interview with Actor Uche Maduagwu, Phyna revealed it was all a Prank, she never committed any abortion.
In the interview with PUNCH, she was asked about her tweet where she responded to a Twitter user calling her an “abortionist” by admitting she has had two abortions.
Phyna told the publication: “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’.”
She continued: “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.”
Asked if she would consider an abortion in her current state, she said: “Why would I do that? 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.
In a recent interview, Phyna revealed she was only joking. According to her, when the troll called her an abortionist, she only agreed to it, just to get back at the troll.
Phyna made this new statement after Netizens cautioned her to keep her private life private, and also, an abortionist can spend 14 years in jail, in Nigeria.
