I was molested by a priest in high school - Peter Okoye's wife

Popular Nigerian music star, Peter Okoye of P-Square's wife, Lola Omotayo, has revealed that she suffered molestation and sexual abuse by a priest as a teenager in high school.

Lola made this disclosure while addressing a group of young ladies at Kinabuti's Dare2Dream Project in Lagos recently, revealing that she kept quiet about it because she did not think anybody would believe her and blamed herself for a long time because of it.

The mother of 2 and career woman said: “I couldn't tell anyone because everyone would blame me, so I carried on the guilt and bitterness with me for years. I was filled with hate and I became an angry person, I was rebellious, I didn't want to listen to anybody…

“and because I wanted to be expelled from school to avoid seeing this person, I would do so many terrible things, everything around me was just so negative, I felt I wasn't good enough.”

Still on the sexual abuse, she said: “I moved on to the university, met the love of my life and I'm like, okay this guy is cool, he loves me but he started to abuse me. I was beaten black and blue all the time, in front of friends, in public and at a point, I felt, you know what, I am not worthy enough, there is nothing about me that is nice, nobody loves me but I hid this from my family. I felt like a loser, so it was hard for me to focus.

“But one day, I woke up and said I am going to change my story and I dumped that person, focused on my education and decided to be serious and be something. I decided to get a job and go to school full time in America.”

Lola further disclosed that she worked to make her own money because she wanted to be independent and not depend on her parents or any man. According to her, she did all sorts of jobs and this helped her build her confidence and today she's accomplished.

She further mentioned her husband and cited him as an example: 'Look at my husband, when I met him, peeps were like what are you doing with him, he has nothing but I stood my ground and chose to stick with him because he had a dream.

“He and his twin brother did not let their dream die, they worked hard, look at them today! I stuck by him because he had focus and drive and today I am happy, I have a good life, we are happy and we have got a beautiful family. No one can make you a loser.”