The 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 a life and death experience.
I went through it all, physical, mental, financial, you name it. It was tough, painful and frustrating.
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 was under.
Thank God for life