Sunday, April 6, 2025 - Nollywood actress and media personality, Omotunde Adebowale-David, also known as Lolo 1, has revealed that she was r@ped by a male colleague in the broadcast industry six years ago.
The media personality made the claim on her podcast, Say My
Piece. While not naming her attacker, Lolo explained that doing so now will
only make people criticise her for not speaking out when it happened six years
ago and instead waited until the person became established in the industry.
The actress said she is still traumatised by the attack six
years later, noting that she goes into a momentary panic whenever she sees her
attacker; something she says happens ‘every other day’.
“I hardly
ever say this, and I am not even ready to tell the full story. The stories of
sexu@l assault. When I discussed it with my daughter yesterday, she held my
hand and said, ‘Mummy, you’ve gone through so much.’ And I said I had.
I remember
how many of those things I have to relive. I have been r@ped only once in my
life, and a colleague r@ped me. I see him every other day. Do you know how
traum@tised I am? When I see him, I just get into this momentary panic.
But if a
woman of my calibre named him, he’s an established person in the broadcast
industry, won’t people say, ‘How come I didn’t speak about it for all these six
years until now that he’s taking a prominent TV position?’
Lolo added that women often respond to sexu@l ass@ult with
denial and self-blaming, highlighting the complexities of trauma and recovery.
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