Controversial Nigerian sex therapist, Hauwa Mohammed, popularly known as Jaruma, has narrated her ordeal from drug addiction, including how she was led into it by a controversial Lagos plastic surgeon, Dr Anu (who is now late) and another friend. For over a year now, Hauwa has been out of the spotlight. During this period, there were speculations that Jaruma, who prides herself as Nigeria’s most trusted, most successful, and highest-paid sex therapist in the last decade, was in rehab for drug addiction.
Narrating her ordeal during a X Space forum by the NDLEA titled ‘Drug Dependence: Addressing the fear of stigmatisation in recovery and overcoming the demon of drugs and stigma: A survivor’s story’ Jaruma revealed that her friend (name undisclosed) and Dr. Anu of MedContour Services LTD) introduced her to the world of hard drugs. Recall that CityScoop reported the death of Dr Anu from drug-related crises last week, which Jaruma confirmed during her session yesterday.
The entrepreneur attributed her introduction to hard drugs to the unexpected fame she experienced at a young age. The mother-of-one claimed she became a drug addict after her encounter with the Lagos plastic surgeon, and she couldn’t manage her body’s reaction to substance abuse. She revealed that she initiated legal proceedings against Dr Anu over the matter.
Her words.. “I don’t know her (Dr Anu). She messaged me on Instagram and told me about how she performed plastic surgery on a lady, and she died. She said Nigerians were trolling her on social media and in real life; when I returned to Nigeria after years of being away (in 2018) to Dubai, she came to visit me, and when we were talking, she said, ‘Babe, let me give you one injection. If I do that injection, you’re going to sleep like you’ve never slept before. You’re going to forget all your problems.’ So, I sat down, she grabbed my arm, and then she did the injection through my vein. The moment it touched my blood, I felt something from the back of my neck down to my shoulders. My body felt something it had never felt before.
“As she was administering the injection, I was NDLEA’s collapsing until I was completely knocked out for about two weeks. When I woke up, my hand and veins were swollen. After a few weeks, I called her and asked if I could get more of the drug. One pack was N60,000, and I bought N820,000 worth. She would send the injections to me and sometimes come to administer them on me herself. I also hired nurses who would inject me every night to help me sleep, but eventually, one dose stopped working for me. So, I had to start taking two, then three, up to five doses, and that was when my body started convulsing, like I had epilepsy, and foam began coming out of my mouth.”
Jaruma further revealed that she started vomiting, purging and other kinds of illness when she tried to stop using drugs. The illnesses, she said, forced her to continue using the injections Dr Anu introduced her to, and she felt depressed and thought of suicide.
Asked if she got justice (in the court proceedings she instituted against Dr Anu), responding, she said: “We wrote a petition against her (Dr Anu) because I was angry, but unfortunately, when she died, I just forgave her. I forgave her because she’s dead; she died last week.”