It ’s Haunted Me All My Life’ – Nicki Minaj Opens Up About Her Heartbreaking Teenage Abortion
To the world she’s a fiery rap superstar at the top of her game. But Nicki Minaj has revealed a secret heartache that has hung over her like a shadow for years. The 32-year-old has spoken openly for the first time about having an abortion when she was a teenager in a candid new cover interview with America’s Rolling Stone magazine. Detailing the horror of making the decision to terminate a pregnancy at such a young age, Dailymail reports that Nicki said: ‘I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through. It’s haunted me all my life. It’d be contradictory if I said I wasn’t pro- choice. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.’ The star first hinted at the subject in her 2008 track Autobiography, in which she referred to herself as ‘mommy’. The topic returned to the spotlight earlier this month when she showed off her vulnerable side in new track All Things Go. Referring to a child who would have been 16, the sam