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Yvonne Nelson discusses her abortion with Sarkodie

In her latest book, the actress reveals some of her deepest secrets.Yvonne Nelson has spoken out about her brief connection with Sarkodie back in 2010.The Ghanaian actress said in her new book, I Am Not Yvonne Nelson, that she became pregnant and had an abortion for the rapper. "I had gone for a pregnancy test to confirm what becomes the most obvious conclusion for a sexually active young woman who misses her monthly flow," she said on pages 88-95 of chapter eight of her book. Karen was with me at the time. And when the test results were ready, I couldn't open them. She did so and announced the verdict. ‘Charlie, it dey there!’, she exclaimed. On an ordinary day, I would have laughed out loud, and that would trigger a string of jolly conversations and jokes. But this was no laughing matter. It was a grim piece of information that was capable of turning my world upside down." Next, she dives into their relationship before sharing the rapper's reaction to her pregnancy and the lengths she went to get rid of her baby. In her words, “I wasn’t the only one responsible for the situation, so I called the man whose potent seed had germinated in me. His name is Michael Owusu Addo, a renowned Ghanaian musician who is better known as Sarkodie... I wouldn’t call what had developed between us a serious relationship. We started talking and got closer and closer. The first thing that hit me when he said no to keeping the pregnancy was my own life. I had grown up without a father in my life. I had often been reminded of how I had been borne by mistake. I was still wondering if the man whose name I bore was my father. How was I going to bring another human being into this world to live like me, someone whose father would reject him or her as Mr. Nelson had rejected me? If there was a way to spare someone else the trauma I was contending with, why would I reject that option, especially when I was not."