May 03, (THEWILL) – Ghanaian actress, Juliet Ibrahim, has recounted how she was serially abused by a violent partner, who never saw his act as wrong.
Juliet made the disclosure in an interview with Chude Jideonwo, saying that she was locked up for days and raped daily by her ex-boyfriend.
She said even though there was never a mutual consent, her ex-lover would still have sex with her and afterwards tell her that it wasn’t rape because they were in a relationship.
“I told him what he did was rape and he said, but we were in a relationship”, she recalled. “But was I ready, that was the question, did I say I was in the mood? I kept saying no, stop it, stop it, you pin me down and you’re doing whatever you wanted to do and you’re smiling saying don’t worry.
“I fought my way out of that relationship because he even locked me up in his house for days, until my sister Sonia came to find me.
“I was scared, uncertain of what to do because this guy was huge and taller than me. He can raise you above the wall. And just imagine that it was every day. Every day, he wanted to do something. That is rape.”
The 36-year-old further advised women in any form of abusive relationships, especially that which involves rape to draw courage and report their partners to appropriate authorities.
“You’re naive. Who do you go and tell? Who would come and fight for you?
“But ladies you can report it now, go and report. If your husband is forcing you to do when you’re not in the mood, it is rape and I tell these men that you cannot force a woman.”
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