Kunle Adeleye
Josephina Itabor, nicknamed Phyna, a former Big Brother Naija reality show winner, has revealed how her estranged Muslim lover’s family rejected her despite her eagerness to convert to Islam.
Phyna stated that, although being a Catholic, she was practicing Islam at the time because of her Muslim partner, whose family urged that he not marry her.
The reality star revealed in a recent interview with media personality Hero Daniels that she eventually left the relationship when her ex-lover’s sisters and mother threatened to throw her out.
She claimed that she discovered she was pregnant after leaving the relationship and contacted her ex-lover, but he told her it was her “business.”
She said she aborted the pregnancy because the “embarrassment was too much” and her future ambition.
“I left, I went back home and found out I was pregnant. I called him and he said that’s my business,” Phyna recalled.
“I would have loved to keep the child but the embarrassment was too much. Not even one person in the family wanted a Christian and I felt I had a bright future and I knew it was going to draw me back so I was left to make the hardest choice ever.”
Kanyidaily recalls that Phyna lambasted colleague, Neo Akpofure for talking about her in a condescending manner.
