“I Lost My Virginity Through Rape” – Actress Foluke Daramola Speaks Out

Highly-Endowed Controversial Nollywood actress Foluke Daramola-Salako, had a chat with Encomium Weekly where she recounted her traumatic experience as a r@pe victim.

In her words read below…

Your foundation against r*pe – was it borne out of your personal experience about r*pe?
Yes, I would say to a large extent. It constitutes about 70 per cent of the reasons for floating the foundation. I am not ashamed to say it. That’s why I tagged the event, The Morning After. It’s a kind of situation that you have the dark side and you believe all hope is lost. So, it’s going to be the morning after for all the r*pe victims that have gone through one or two nasty things.

You’re a victim of r*pe, would you say you have put the traumatic experience behind you?
Very well. I have put it behind me. It’s an experience I never thought I would put behind so quickly. I had it at either 16 or 17. I had even started acting. I just started with my teenage talk show. And because it’s a first experience, it was nasty. So, my own belief about s€xual intercourse was bad. I felt frightened anytime I have a reason to do it.

Does that make you have phobia for s€x?
Exactly! So, I just had to cope through it. And by the time I came out of it, I came out a better person. It even affected my psyche and confidence because I was always so afraid. When a man discusses relationship with me, I see it like there is trouble. So, at the end of the day I can say conveniently that I have put it behind me. And the person I married today has helped me because I speak about it. If I don’t speak about it, there’s no how I would come out of it like that.

Each time I speak about it, I am loosening up every form of the pain and guilt and all that because I used to feel guilty that I am the one that caused it to happen to me. And I can tell you authoritatively that I go to a conference to talk about r*pe, at each time I have had women telling me that either it had happened to them or their children but they don’t know how to discuss it with anybody other than their pastors.