Veteran
Ghanaian
gospel
musician,
Esther
Smith,
has
publicly
revealed
that
she
was
nearly
aborted.
Speaking
in
an
interview
with
Nana
Romeo
on
Accra
FM,
Madam
Smith
said
her
mother,
who
was
young
at
the
time
she
was
conceived,
wanted
to
abort
her.
She
recalled
her
suspicious
grandmother
followed
her
mother
when
she
intended
to
visit
the
Komfo
Anokye
Teaching
Hospital
and
abort
her.
“My
mother
wanted
to
abort
me.
On
the
day,
she
was
going
to
KATH
for
the
abortion.
Her
mother
suspected
something
and
asked
where
she
was
headed
and
started
following
her
around,”
the
‘Onyame
Ye
Nyame’
singer
said.
According
to
the
popular
Gospel
singer,
her
mother
later
confessed
her
intentions
to
abort
her.
“Even
my
father
who
didn’t
even
want
me,
when
he
realised
that
my
mother
wanted
to
abort
me,
he
stopped
her.
“She
had
taken
a
lot
of
drugs
to
help
with
the
abortion
but
none
of
them
worked,”
Esther
Smith
stated.
She
also
mentioned
what
a
pastor
told
her
mother
about
the
impact
that
she
[unborn
Esther]
will
be
making
on
the
country.
Smith
was
grateful
for
being
saved
and
grown
to
make
the
impact
prophesied
before
her
birth.
She
further
opened
up
about
her
music
journey—which
started
in
her
teens.
“When
I
was
14
years
old,
I
used
to
go
to
church
with
my
aunt
and
joined
a
Methodist
choir
somewhere
in
Kumasi,”
she
said,
referencing
the
Tanoso
Methodist
Church
Choir.
“I
was
the
youngest
in
the
choir.”
“We
moved
to
House
of
Faith
Ministries
where
I
joined
Voices
of
Faith
at
the
age
of
16.
I
started
to
write
my
own
songs
–
at
the
age
of
16,”
Esther
Smith
added.