Veteran actress Ayo Mogaji is now 60 years old.
The mother-of-one in a podcast episode hosted by Nollywood actress, Abiola Adebayo, told of how doctor thought she was going to die several years back when she had challenges with pregnancy.
According to her, it happened this way: “There was this lawyer who wanted to marry me because he had been in a marriage for 14 years and they never had a child. He took me to his mum and I was looking for a child that period. Our mothers were introduced and I got pregnant.
“Unfortunately, the pregnancy was ectopic. It stayed right inside the fallopian tube and LUTH was on strike at that time. So, by the time we realised what was happening, they took me to seven hospitals and the late Uncle Ede Aderinokun was the one who gave me a note to the hospital where they admitted me.
“They didn’t even want to admit me. The doctor said he wasn’t sure if I could survive till tomorrow and I said, ‘Do you believe in God? Even if you do not believe in God, believe in me because I believe in God. We did not have an agreement that I was going to die like this.’ They did the operation and it took them seven to nine hours the following day.
“Fortunately or unfortunately, the ectopic pregnancy ruptured before they could do anything and it ruptured my appendix, so they had to remove one fallopian tube. I am living with one and I had my child through natural birth with that one I have left.”