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Jaruma narrates how she was introduced to hard drugs and nearly killed self with overdose
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Hauwa ‘Jaruma‘ Muhammad, the self-proclaimed sex therapist, has spoken about her battle with substance abuse.
In 2023, there were speculations that the entrepreneur was under rehabilitation after a video of her looking distressed went viral.
Tosin Silverdam, the blogger, had claimed Jaruma was rehabilitated in Abuja for substance abuse.
But speaking in an X space organised by NDLEA on Friday, Jaruma revealed that she started to abuse drugs when she came to the limelight.
The sex therapist said a close friend invited her for a hang-out and tried convincing her to take marijuana but she refused.
“I once made a video on YouTube discussing something. It was just a plan; I didn’t know the video would go viral and turn me into the Jaruma everyone knows,” she said.
“I was trying to get a job and earn a regular income. Being in the spotlight, I made some mistakes. I never got involved in drugs during my secondary school and university days because I was my mother’s only child. One day, a friend who I knew was into drugs (marijuana) invited me to hang out. We were chilling together, and she offered me the marijuana, but I refused, saying I was okay.
“She then asked me how I relax since I don’t drink or smoke, mentioning that every celebrity has a way to relieve stress. I told her I can’t do drugs or drink because I’m Muslim. A few days later, I saw them with a balloon, and I wondered what on earth they were doing with it. I had no idea what it was. She said, ‘Let me show you.’ If I had known what the balloon (hard drug) was, I would have refused it, just like I refused the marijuana earlier because I know what weed (cannabis) is, what codeine is, and all that stuff, so when offered, I can say no.”
Jaruma revealed that when she eventually yielded to her friend’s request and inhaled the balloon, her brain function ceased and she started to drool.
“I was on the floor, and then my friend said that’s the initial effect, but after I do it one, two, three, four times, I’ll get used to it, and it will become normal, and I won’t be drooling anymore,” she said.
“This was something I didn’t know. She gave me the balloon, put it in my mouth, and said, ‘Just inhale it,’ and I did.
“So, after I regained consciousness, I left because I was so upset. So, I left and never spoke to her again.”
HOW LAGOS-BASED COSMETIC SURGEON INTRODUCED ME TO HARD DRUGS
The entrepreneur, who runs a sex enhancement brand, said she started using hard drugs after she met Anuoluwapo Adepoju, the Lagos-based plastic surgeon.
Jaruma said she was “deceived into believing” that the drugs would help fight off her depression and she kept taking it until she became addicted to substance usage.
The graduate of International Relations and Human Therapy from Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey said she attempted to commit suicide after “I became tired of everything”.
“Then Dr. Anu came. She had told me some things. She said some people have been paid to bring me down and tarnish my image. She said some people are after me. The details are not for here, you can follow me on Instagram or Twitter. I will post more details on that. I reported Dr Anu to my fathers Buba Marwa and Femi Babafemi. They were getting ready. I sued her in court. Sooner, you are going to see the petition with the date and everything. NDLEA were so mad when I told them what happened,” she said.
“… she said ‘let me give you one injection. If I give you that injection, you are going to sleep like you have never slept before. She claimed I was going to forget all my problems. She grabbed my arm and did the injection. The moment it touched my blood. I felt something at the back of my neck onto my shoulders. The body had felt something it had never felt before. As she was pushing I was collapsing. I was falling off my bed until I was completely knocked out.
“I did not know where I was. I did not know what I was doing. I was knocked out completely for like two weeks. When I woke up, my hands and veins were swollen. A few weeks later, when someone started saying something about me, I called and asked if I could get that sleeping injection. One pack was N60,000. I think I paid N720,000 to her.
“She would sometimes send the injections to me or come do it herself. I got nurses who would be injecting me every night. And then at some point, one stopped working for me. I mean one dose. I started using two doses. Two stopped working. I started doing three doses. Sometimes I do five at once. And that was when my body started jacking like I had epilepsy. And then foam was now coming out my months.
“Cocaine makes you hyper. Drugs make you low. After that initial feeling that the injection is sweet. When you wake up you feel one kind of depression. You even feel worse every time you wake up. I feel like crap.
“One time I got fed up and I just wanted to die. I was just tired. I knew what five doses did to me. So, I purposely injected myself with 10 doses. When my workers found me I was not breathing. I did the injection myself and used a very big vein on my wrist. I was becoming unconscious. As I was becoming unconscious, the needle fell out, and the blood from the big vein was gushing out. It was a horrific sight to see.
“Next thing, I just saw myself in a white environment with big machines and doctors around me. Doctors trying to bring me back to life. And I said I am still not dead?”
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‘Coming to America’ actor, James Earl Jones dies at 93
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James Earl Jones, the actor whose rich baritone provided the voice for “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader, has died, his representatives said Monday. He was 93.
Jones, who also voiced King Mufasa in Disney’s animated feature “The Lion King,” had a prolific and varied career over six decades.
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Tyrese Gibson arrested over monthly $10K child support
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Tyrese Gibson has been taken into custody after he failed to pay the monthly $10,000 child support payments a judge ordered him to make to his ex Samantha Lee.
Gibson – who shares five-year-old daughter Soraya with Lee – was held in contempt of court Monday morning during a hearing over the matter.
Judge Kevin Farmer was upset over Gibson’s refusal to make the monthly $10,000 child support payments the actor was ordered to begin paying in April 2023.
Farmer held Gibson in contempt of court Monday. And the ‘Fast & Furious’ actor was placed in handcuffs by the bailiff and taken out of the courtroom.
The judge offered Gibson the chance to resolve the issue and avoid jail time if he paid $73,000. That figure includes Samantha’s attorney fees, which total $7,500.
Gibson had been making payments to Lee. However, it has not been the $10,000 figure the judge ordered him to begin making last year.
Tyrese Gibson has been paying his ex around $2,200 every month as of 2023.
Insiders said Gibson is currently in the process of sorting out the $73K payment.
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Like Tems, Ayra Starr says she has ‘never fallen in love’
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Oyinkansola Aderigbigbe, the Nigerian singer better known as Ayra Starr, says she has “never fallen in love”.
The Grammy-nominated Afrobeats star spoke about her love life in a recent interview with Dazed Magazine.
Starr, 21, who graced the cover of the latest issue of the British lifestyle magazine, admitted that despite being identified as a “lover girl,” she has never been in a fully committed relationship.
The 21-year-old Mavin Records sensation, now open to finding love, also attributed her single status to her intense focus on music since age 15.
“I want to fall in love. I wrote ‘Lagos Love Story’ about what love would look like if I was. I am a lover girl deep in my heart, I’m just very strong headed about it. I actually have never been in love. I have been in certain situations – not situationships! – but I have never been in a fully committed relationship,” she said.
“I’ve put myself out there and I’ve tried to see what’s there but I don’t think I’ve had the time. I’ve been working since I was 15, I was modelling, I was doing university, and now I’m on the road.
“It’s me just enjoying myself as a girl. I’m like, let me sing to a cute boy today and I’m looking around because I can – why not?”
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