Toyin Abraham
By Our Reporter
Popular Nollywood actress, Toyin Abraham has said that he smoked Marijuna known in local parlance as Igbo and snorted Cocaine when her marriage to actor Adeniyi Johnson crashed.
The lovable actress said she was introduced to drugs by her friends to checkmate depression as a result of her crashed marriage.
In her recent interview with BBC News Yoruba, the veteran actress recounted how a close female friend introduced her to drugs.
Toyin Abraham stated that she found herself doing drugs, convinced that it could help her escape her problems and alleviate the pain caused by her sorrow.
While recounting being born into a religious home, the ‘Ijakumo’ actress revealed that it was quite a shameful experience for her.
She said “I have done some certain things that are not really my fault because I came from a Christian home.
“When the problems started, some of my friends introduced me to drugs in such a way that I kept asking myself what led me to this.
“I didn’t plan for a broken marriage. But when it happened, I was emotionally carried away.
“Those things were empowering my negative energy. Sometimes even when I do some positive things it would just end up being negative. So I had to stop.
“Then I sought help. And I also changed some friends and people around me. I tried to be positive and I had to deal with depression and drugs.”
The Nollywood star, counselled youths on the need to abstain from drugs at the 2017 edition of Success Story Africa, held at the TLC Auditorium, Lagos, on Sunday.
“You need to stop bad habits. I was involved in a lot of vices and it became worse last year,” she said at the event.
“I did drugs and I am not ashamed to say it because it’s now a thing of the past. They say codeine makes you high; I took a lot. I smoked a lot and I didn’t even know I looked horrible, because I was so skinny.
“If you came to my house last year, you would meet a lot of people and you wont want to leave because we smoked, gossiped about people and what have you.”
