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L
et’s talk about your
childhood, the dreams,
the challenges and the
lessons that you took
away from that season of your
life.
My childhood is usually something
I don’t really talk about. It wasn’t
pleasant. I’m sure I had some
good moments, but for the most
part growing into adult I only
remember all of the bad things
because it was so frequent.
My mum was physically and
emotionally abusive, and I
would go to school with
bruises. She would give
us licks, but it wasn’t
like regular west
Indian type quote,
and unquote lick, it
was severe, and
we would have
those bruises or
like dried blood
from wounds that
aren’t closed yet
and stuff like that.
I’d go to school
and get questioned
about it and
children’s day would
come, and they would have
meetings, and I don’t
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know, I still don’t know
Shontelle Dubois is our DOZ
what her issues were
or why she was so
Show Preferred Guest for this
violent and verbally
issue of DOZ Magazine, and
aggressive, but all
indeed our very first DOZ Show
of that taught me
Preferred Guest. She is nothing
to be the person
if she is not a fighter! From a
that I am today.
childhood characterised by abuse,
That’s why I
am so thick
to a ghastly motor accident,
skinned if
depression, failed relationships,
you want to
job loss, eviction, and ridicule,
say that
Shontelle
Dubois has seen it all
because
and succeeded despite it all. Read
I’ve
SHONTELLE
DUBOIS
this extract from Shontelle’s DOZ
Show interview and be inspired
by her determination to get back
up every time life has knocked her
down!
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already been through all the
criticising and tormenting and all
that. I’ve already gone through
that since I was four years old.
So, to me, that’s my normal. So,
to have somebody in the outside
world do it, it’s like, been there
done that. (She laughs.)
A few years ago, you were
involved in a seven-car
accident. Briefly share that
experience with us.
Well, it was like one car
stopped to let someone
out. I guess their house
was close by and they
just stopped in the
right lane. I was
the third car.
So, the second
car stopped, I
stopped, the
car behind me
stopped, and
then I guess
the last three
or four cars
they didn’t so
the pile-up
happened,
and I went
into the car
in front of me.
I got hit from
behind and
went into the
car in front of
me. And then
I had to do
three years
of rehab I
had to do
therapy
as well
because
my psyche
was a little
off and the
physical
damages,
I still
experience