Yvonne Nelson Drops A Bomb In Her Book: “Sarkodie Impreganted Me, Refused To Accept Responsibility”

Actress/Movie Producer, Yvonne Nelson has indicated her conclusion to abort a pregnancy because the fellow who put her in that condition declined to accept responsibility on the ground that he had another lover.

In her book ‘I Am Not Yvonne Nelson’, the adorable Ghanaian actress authored the chap in question was a rapper based in Tema and this happening was in 2010. In her narrative, she cited that the said rapper was Michael Owusu Addo popularly known in showbiz space as Sarkodie, the Ghanaian rapper who is now an icon and a multiple award winner.

“I had gone for a pregnancy test to confirm what becomes the most obvious conclusion for a sexually active young woman who misses her monthly flow. I was in the company of Karen. And when the test result was ready, I wasn’t strong enough to open it. She did and declared the verdict.

“Charlie, it dey there!” she exclaimed.

“On an ordinary day, I would have laughed out loud and that would trigger a string of jolly conversations and jokes. But this was no laughing matter. It was a grim piece of information that was capable of turning my world upside down. I wasn’t the only one responsible for the situation, so I called the man whose potent seed had germinated in me. His name is Michael Owusu Addo, a renowned Ghanaian musician who is better known as Sarkodie.

“Sarkodie was a budding musician with the potential to become one of the biggest artists in Ghana and beyond. At the time, however, the future looked uncertain, and his way through the maze of life still appeared too foggy to predict. Success was not guaranteed. He was still living with his mother and was not ready to carry a burden while he was being carried by his mother.

“I wouldn’t call what had developed between us a serious relationship. I gravitated toward people in the music industry. For the longest time in my life, music was my getaway from all the unpleasant things life threw at me. So, I liked his talent. We started talking and got close. Closer,” parts of the book read.

As captured in chapter 8 of her memoir unveiled on Sunday, June 18, 2023, the actress attempted to terminate the baby by taking some concoctions from a colleague but to her dismay, the substance could not work as a test disclosed she was still pregnant.

She took the decision to terminate the pregnancy because she is fatherless and was not did not anticipate giving birth to a child whose father had declined to take responsibility.

“The first thing that hit me when he said no to keeping the pregnancy was my own life. I had grown up without a father in my life. I had often been reminded of how I had been borne by mistake.

“I was still wondering if the man whose name I bore was my father. How was I going to bring another human being into this world to live like me, someone whose father would reject him or her as Mr Nelson had rejected me? If there was a way to spare someone else the trauma I was contending with, why would I reject that option, especially when I was not,” Yvonne Nelson authored in her book?

She proceeded and remembered eventually succeeding in terminating the pregnancy but mentioned it is “one of the most regrettable mistakes in my life. If the clock of life could be rewound to my younger self, I would keep it.”

‘I Am Not Yvonne Nelson’ is an explosive and riveting account of a young woman who sets out to discover herself but finds out that she has been living with a false identity.

© 2023 • story by Edem Latsu Nukafu
Writer’s email: edemlatsu093@gmail.com


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