For the second time, Nigerian comedienne, Helen Paul has publicly narrated how she grew up to become a successful personality despite being mocked and ridiculed as a child, having being born in difficult circumstances.
Speaking in a clip that has just gone viral on social media, Helen disclosed she was born out of rape.
The celebrity comedienne said her aunties and their neighbours called her a bastard, making mockery of her.
She recalled how her aunties would warn her grandmother — who she grew up with — not to use her allowance on her.
Helen said her grandmother, however, consistently urged her to stay focused on becoming someone significant in life.
She said, “Some of us can’t take rejection. Some of us don’t know that our words can make someone feel rejected forever but it worked for me differently.
“I was born out of rape and I grew up with my grandmother, where everyone in the area called me a bastard. So I grew up hearing that I’m a bastard.
“When my aunties come to give grandma money for feeding, they will say ‘Don’t use this money to take care of one bastard child, use it to take care of yourself and buy your medicine’.
“Once they leave, mama would turn to me and speak in pidgin ‘you don hear wetin dem aunty dem dey talk, na so this world be o. Na people wey suppose be your mama blood be that oh but dem don tell you who you be. If you like, grow up, forget yourself, say if person no do well, nobody they celebrate ham’.
“But I realise that anytime I offended Mama, she would not want to touch me because they have warned Mama not to beat me. So you think a child looking at different talk will grow up with love?
“But today, I am a comedienne in Nigeria and a professor in the United States.”
Sundiata Post recalls that Helen Paul first disclosed the circumstances of her birth on her Instagram page in 2019 when he dedicated her PhD to her mother.
