Nollywood actress Victoria Inyama has shared her experience with female circumcision, affirming it as the best thing that has ever happened to her.
Speaking during a recent Instagram Live session with media personality Daddy Freeze, the actress revealed she underwent the procedure while living with her grandmother in a village. She also spoke about the physical pain and trauma she endured when she was circumcised at the age of five.
However, she said the procedure has helped her control sexual urges on several occasions.
“FGM (female genital mutilation) is evil. You now have to deal with the consequences of that thing, having a mind of its own. Yes, I was (circumcised). Because I grew up in the village with my grandmother. But that is what is helping me. That is the best thing that they did for me. I swear to God. If I say I no dey do, I no dey do. And that is the power that I have,” she said.
“That is why nobody can say they have seen me in this hotel or that hotel.
“At the age of five or six. They will give you some (kind of) gin. When you take it, you will think you have fainted. They held me down. It was a specialist person who did it. It was just a swipe.”
When asked why she did not circumcise her own children, Inyama said she does not have absolute authority over such decisions regarding them.
“I did not do it for the children. They are British. I will agree if their father wanted to. Even though I have the trauma, I think that is the best thing that happened to me,” she added.
