On the Real Housewives of Dubai, Chanel Ayan shared a part of her life that no one ever expected to hear. The reason behind her sharing this trauma was to help spread awareness that it does still happen and does still exist.
The star is Somali and Ethiopian and on the last episode of the show, she revealed that when she was 5 years old, she was forced to endure female circumcision that was done to keep her a virgin until marriage.
Real Housewives of Dubai: The Shocking News
The topic came up pretty candidly on the show, which viewers were shocked by. She told fans, “I’m a survivor. I felt that I was utterly betrayed by my culture and my family. This is just a barbaric practice, and it shouldn’t be happening to young girls. It happened to me 35 years ago and I’ve never gotten over it.”
Real Housewives of Dubai: Chanel Ayan Shares Her Traumatic Past, Others Think It’s an Excuse For Bad Behavior
She explained that her aunt and grandmother actually took her to a strange man’s house and they “sewed” up her genitals. She added, “Everybody’s a virgin in my culture because of this. Because how are you going to have sex when you’re sewn as a girl until you get married? It’s a way to keep men satisfied.”
She went on about her trauma, “I think trauma is something that I will live with for the rest of my life. That is why I want to talk about it because I honestly don’t want this to happen to anyone because I know exactly how it feels and it’s not good.”
With all of this sharing, always comes some repercussions. Another Real Housewives of Dubai star, Sara Al Madani, feels as if Chanel is only making excuses for her bad behavior. This statement came when Chanel called Sara “full of herself” and then said, “I love the way you speak and wish I could be like you one day, but it’s too late.”
Sara told fans, “For her to take that story and victimize herself? I mean, we’ve all been through traumas in life, but that’s not an excuse for us to treat people in any bad way or behave in any certain way. Because maturity is figuring out what your issues are and solving them and helping yourself.
It’s not treating people badly and saying, ‘hey, I’ve been traumatized.’ For Ayan, I was a shoulder for her to cry on, I was the person she called for advice… I’ve done so much for Ayan. I was always by her side, and I got her back. So I felt like we were building a friendship.”
These two may continue to battle it out and you can see it on Bravo!
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