Media personality MC Yaa Yeboah has recalled some harrowing events in her life contrasting them with better fortunes today.

Speaking to Nana Romeo on Accra 100.5 FM’s Ayekoo Ayekoo, she noted she grew up in the slums of the Accra Newtown Zongo where “I was exposed to a lot of violence” and “different characters”.

“You couldn’t navigate your way through properly,” she bemoaned. “There was no one to help me, and shape my thinking and my behaviour.”

Mother

She said her mother, though “she did her best possible,” did not cultivate a meaningful relationship with her.

She explained her mother was always travelling and could be away for five days straight, only making sure there was bulk cooked food at home.

Father

“My father was a good man but at some point, he changed and became very abusive so I didn’t have a good relationship with my father, too,” she indicated, explaining he was in the habit of beating her.

“I was not happy to be home,” she added.

Working as a teenager

According to Yaa, during vacations, to avoid being home, she worked with a savings and loans company.

“I was saving money hoping to leave home. I felt I didn’t belong there,” she noted.

Roaming the streets

Yaa Yeboah said “at a point, I left home roamed the streets – Abeka.

“I would see people and pretend to be stranded, and I’d tell them I didn’t know where my parents were and I had nowhere to sleep. I’d ask them to take me in.”

Police station

While roaming the streets one day, Yaa Yeboah said she encountered a couple who, concerned by her persistent appeals for adoption, took her to a police station.

“It got late while I was at the police station, so the police had me lie on a bench in front of their desk to wait for morning so they could take me back home. Late at night, while I was sleeping, a policeman came to tap me on my buttocks. He said I should go see him off to urinate... So I almost got raped as a kid,” she narrated, underlining the danger she was in.

Back home

Eventually, when she was taken back home, Yaa Yeboah said her father showed no concern for her whereabouts. He rather said he was disappointed she had returned, she added.

The entertainment pundit said on that day, she made a heartfelt resolve to leave the house and so “right after finishing senior high, I went to live with a friend”.

Adwoa Pokua

Yaa Yeboah asked for divine blessings for her friend Adwoa Pokua for taking her in, keeping her warm, feed and clothed.

“My first birthday celebration, in my entire life, it was Adwoa Pokua’s boyfriend who gave me money for it. So she is someone I hold her in high esteem,” Yaa Yeboah noted.