Popular Ghanaian musician Shatta Wale has spoken up about his own battle with childhood trauma and his parents’ ongoing marital problems.
The Kakai hitmaker recently discussed how seeing his parents’ divorce when he was young had a negative impact on his mental and emotional health and left him with a burdensome trauma that he is currently coping with in a Facebook live.
He claimed that this breakup had an impact on his sanity because he had always desired to be cared for by both of his parents.
“Growing up, I lived with my parents for a while but they did not help me. They made a mistake and broke up. They created a broken home; our home was broken and it affected me so much. Our broken home affected me. Anytime I talked or complained about this, they labelled me disrespectful. So, I left them. I left the house. I run from my parents.
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“You know what my parents put me through? Because of them, I slept on the streets, I slept in front of stores. Those days, it was the prostitutes at Nkrumah Circle who were watching over me. I slept at filling stations at Circle including the one that got burnt. I slept on the streets of Adabraka and so on,” he said.
He emphasized the ways in which his early years of identity formation and sense of security were impacted by the absence of a stable familial environment.
He claimed that the event left him with severe emotional scars that affected his relationships and general wellbeing, making him avoid unpleasant individuals.
“As a result, I started running from stress, running from people who would stress me. That’s where I learned how to cut people off because I don’t want stress. I cut people off without thinking twice. I am the chief cutter. I have learned that in life, it is important to cut off anyone who wants to bring negativity into your life,” he added.
