35-year-old Nigerian singer and songwriter, Adekunle Gold,
has disclosed why he begged God to take his life when he was 20.
The father-of-one in a letter to his fans, on Friday, July
15, said, “I was born with sickle cell disease. It was life and death, it was
physical, mental, financial, you name it and I went through it all. It was
tough, painful and frustrating. I lived with a sickness no one around me
understood, I lived with restrictions all my childhood.
The nights were painful and lonely, nights that no one could
help me get through. It was just me, God and my mind. The pains and shivers
were unbearable. They always came in the night, when my family had no means to
transport me to a hospital. We simply couldn't afford the constant hospital
bills so I had no choice but to endure the pain.
Living with sickle cell is far from living a normal life.
One of the most intense crisis I had was at the age of 20, I remember laying in
my bed in the middle of the night asking for an end to it all. I begged God to
take my life away because I couldn't understand what I did to deserve the pain
my body and mind were under.
As usual with sickle crisis after some days, the pain
subsided and God asked me; “That end you begged me for, do you still want it?â€
Of course, I said no and that's when everything changed for me. That's when I
realised that I had been given another opportunity to live my dreams and to
show those that mocked me that sickle cell anaemia was never going to end me,
that it was never going to hold me back from my dreams and aspirations.
My body caves in once in a while, and some symptoms come
back but what this disease has taught me is resilience. Sickle cell anaemia
gave me hope, made me tough, gave me the discipline I needed to be who I am
today, and built my character. I mean I went through a whole five weeks of back-to-back
performances and didn't fall sick.â€
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