Professional dancer Kafayat Oluwatoyin Shafau, also known as Kaffy, has opened up on some traumatic experiences she had as a child with her mother.
Kaffy revealed that when she was 13, her mother stripped her naked and flogged her over false assumptions.
The dancer in an interview with the Honest Bunch, disclosed that her mother was a divorced single mother. She also noted that her mother dated several men after the divorce but was insecure about those men getting close with her.
While opening up about a past experience, Kaffy explained the situation surrounding being beaten naked by her mother.
“I was 13 when my mother started suspecting me with her own men. Because of the divorce she had kinds of people. She will have different men she is dating and we will see those men as daddies because we were also missing that father [figure]. The closer you are to the men, the more she is insecure. And there was a day that I was stripped naked in front of that man in the livingroom and punished for just trying to help ‘daddy’ clean a blood from his face because he was shaving and cut himself. My mother walked into the room when I was saying, ‘Daddy, see.’ And she misinterpreted what was happening and I was flogged naked in front of everyone,” she said.
Kaffy noted that the experience traumatized her and affected her mind.
“That had it own traumatising effect on the mind on its own. But then you are thinking, ‘But that’s my mother, would I do that to my mother? Why would my mother even think of that of me, the daughter?’ Are you seeing that transfer of insecurity from mother to child? It’s done subliminally but it’s going to have its own effect,” she stated.
