Juliet Ibrahim has disclosed how she was raped by her ex-boyfriend.
The actress claims that despite her repeated requests for her ex-boyfriend to stop, he persisted in forcing himself into a sexual encounter with her.
“I kept saying no, stop it, stop it but he will pin me down to do whatever it is”.
She further narrated that this said boyfriend will rather be smiling and saying “’don’t worry’, and you are kissing whilst I am crying; that means you are a rapist”.
The mother of one recounted this chilling story whilst speaking on the ‘With Chude’ TV show.
“I had to leave that relationship, I had to,” she told the host of the show. “I fought my way out of that relationship because he even locked me up in the house,” she revealed.
In an excerpt of the interview seen by pulse.com.gh, she continued that “he locked me up in the house for some days until my sister Sonia came to find me”.
According to Juliet, the ex-fiancée of Safo Kantanka Jnr, she was scared of the guy because he was thick and tall.
“I was scared because what do I do, this guy was huge, he is taller than me, and imagining someone like this pinning you down. He can raise me up and pin me against the wall. You are against the wall and you can’t do anything,” the actress recounted.
In the video below, she added that the rape happened every day. “It was every day and I am not happy, you seeing that I am not happy but every day. Every day, he wanted to do something, that is rape”.
Juliet Ibrahim did not however disclose who this ex-boyfriend of hers is. She seized the moment to advise women to speak against such forceful sexual encounters if even it is from their husbands.
“In those kinds of cases you can not even explain, who do you go and tell? Who is going to come and fight for you? At that time you are naïve but ladies you can report it now, go and report. if your husband is forcing you to do when you are not in the mood, it is rape”.
Juliet Ibrahim is a Ghanaian actress, film producer and singer of Lebanese, Ghanaian and Liberian descent. She won the Best Actress in a Leading Role award at the 2010 Ghana Movie Awards for her role in 4 Play. She has been referred to as the “Most Beautiful West African Woman” according to A-listers Magazine.
Early life
Juliet Ibrahim was born to a Lebanese father and a Ghanaian-Liberian mother. She is the oldest child and has two sisters including the actress Sonia Ibrahim, and a brother. Juliet and her siblings spent the longest part of their childhood in Lebanon and Ivory Coast due to civil wars.[citation needed] She had her primary education in Lebanon, then proceeded to Ivory Coast for her secondary education where she lived with her parents. She studied at the Ghana Institute of Languages, where she studied English, French, and Spanish. She also studied marketing, Advertising, and Public Relations at the Ghana Institute of Journalism.
Ibrahim has commented that in Africa she is not regarded as a black woman because of her skin tone, but outside Africa, she is recognized as being black. She objected to the term ‘half-caste’ and said that she was ‘Black and proud of it
Career
Ibrahim made her acting debut in the 2005 film Crime to Christ starring Majid Michel. Her first Nollywood film was Yankee Boys and she has featured in more than 50 films afterward. In 2014 she produced her first film Number One Fan, where she stars as an actress being stalked on by a fan in the film. Her second movie, Shattered Romance, featuring Nigerian and Ghanaian actors, launched amidst fanfare in Accra, Ghana on December 5 2014. Her new TV series; Every Woman Has A Story, where she debuted her directorial skills is airing on Terrestrial TV and her new reality show, The Perfect Assistant, will be unveiled soon. She has also featured in Twi movies, in Yoruba language films, and also in Ladan Aure, a Hausa Language film.