I regret terminating my pregnancy with Sarkodie – Yvonne Nelson

Yvonne Nelson, a Ghanaian actress and movie producer, regrets aborting her alleged pregnancy in 2010 with Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie.

If she could turn back the hands of time, the actress revealed in her new memoir, titled “I am not Yvonne Nelson” the actress said she would have never aborted the pregnancy.

“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,” she noted.

In what has been making headlines, the YN Production CEO revealed in her newly launched memoir that she got pregnant for Tema-based rapper Sarkodie in 2010 but had to abort the baby as he was not ready to father a child due to poverty and lack of shelter.

She stated that she had a brief sexual encounter with Sarkodie when he was an up-and-coming rapper with no means of livelihood, living with his mother at the time.

When she discovered she was pregnant, she informed the musician, but the BET-winning rapper was then not financially ready to take up the responsibility.

“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,” she recalled in the memoir.

“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,” Miss Yvonne Nelson added.

In chapter 8 of her memoir, titled "abortion", Yvonne Nelson narrated how she feared for her life the moment Sarkodie told her to abort the baby, and quickly she thought about a possible repeat of history if she decided to keep the baby, due to how her own father rejected her at birth.

“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?" she said.

Yvonne Nelson further explained their affair, noting, "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."