{"id":746548,"date":"2019-11-18T09:52:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T09:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/18\/mom-at-15-raped-at-65-meet-nollywood-actress-taiwo-ajayi-lycett\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T09:52:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T09:52:55","slug":"mom-at-15-raped-at-65-meet-nollywood-actress-taiwo-ajayi-lycett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/18\/mom-at-15-raped-at-65-meet-nollywood-actress-taiwo-ajayi-lycett\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom At 15, Raped At 65&#8230; Meet Nollywood Actress, Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_723911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-723911\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-723911\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/b-49.png\" alt=\"Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett\" width=\"592\" height=\"570\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-723911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" Igw0E IwRSH eGOV_ _4EzTm ItkAi \">Veteran Nollywood actress Taiwo Ajai-Lycett has revealed how she became a mother at the age of 15, dropped out at 16, became a widow at 52 and raped at the age of 65.<\/div>\n<p>The 79-year-old, in a recent interview with TheNation, said: \u201cI have been through the fire, I emerged fortified. I was 15 years old when I had a child. By 16, I was on my own. I knew I was going to get a good education. I was going to be a lawyer.<\/p>\n<div class=\" Igw0E IwRSH eGOV_ _4EzTm ItkAi \">\n<p>\u201cBut I knew that I was on my own. My family disowned me. I married David Akinduro in 1959 after I relocated to the U.K, but I left him due to domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI met Thomas Lycett long after I divorced my first husband. Eventually, I married him. We had a blissful marriage. He died when I was 52-years-old. I remember him every day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Emotional Moment: Photos from Agatha Amata\u2019s TV studio commissioning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was the one that told me that I was better off being an actor. In 2006, I was robbed and raped in my house in Egbe. I was tied. I was beaten. I was brutalized. My health was ruined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was blindfolded and raped. The man who raped me complained that he couldn\u2019t gain easy entry into me because I wasn\u2019t wet. I told him \u2018widows don\u2019t get wet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kept talking to them and asked them repeatedly, \u2018Are you doing this to your mother?\u2019 Angrily, they taped my mouth but I remained fearless and prayed all through the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police came. They expected me to pursue the case. I knew the masterminds. I could have gotten them incarcerated but I simply moved on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at me today, I am over it. See, the mind is a beautiful thing. When you hold on to past hurt, you tie yourself down to grief. You get infected with its poison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than wallow in grief and self-pity, I picked myself up and sought medical help, ensuring that they hadn\u2019t infected me with any STD.. That same year, the Obasanjo government got me the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) national honour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFew years later, One of them came to prostrate before me, pleading for my forgiveness. I told him to seek forgiveness from God. I told him that I had moved on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett Veteran Nollywood actress Taiwo Ajai-Lycett has revealed how she became a mother at the age of 15, dropped out at 16, became a widow at 52 and raped at the age of 65. The 79-year-old, in a recent interview with TheNation, said: \u201cI have been through the fire, I emerged fortified. 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