Nana Ama McBrown explains
how in 2013 she had an accident with her husband, Maxwell, as she cautions road users.
Nana Ama
McBrown is a household name. A movie star, entrepreneur, philanthropist,
brand influencer and now the host of the popular weekly television programme United
ShowBiz on UTV.
Her rise
to fame has been meteoric but what many people do not know was how an accident
with her husband in 2013 almost took her life but for the divine intervention
of God.
Today,
the multi-talented Actress and TV Presenter has a broken arm with a huge scar
that is a constant reminder that she was saved.
Recounting
events as they happened on a fateful day on the dawn of January 30, she
explained that it was like nothing she had ever seen or felt before.
“I had to
do a video for the musical group ‘Praye’, the video had been rescheduled
several times so I said I just had to do it. I was driving from home when my
husband who was then my boyfriend was like, let’s go together because I see you
are tired, so we can hurry and return.
“It was
about 9 pm when we left home. We finished everything at about 2am, so I just in
the front seat of the car, relaxed, then my boyfriend was driving so there was
a game I was playing on my phone.
“When we
got to Lapaz, all I heard was ‘Ama y’awu (Ama we are dead), by the time I tried
to look at what was happening, it was like a movie. Everything happened so
fast, 5-6 seconds. All I saw was a car coming from Abeka into the main road, so
the traffic was on amber, suddenly I saw the car ran into us, and Max drove
into the right side, realizing that there were a lot of cars on the other side,
if he had gone the other way, he would have ran into a lot of people and cars
and someone may have died.
“So while
trying to maneuver, the car came to hit us. I realized my hands were locked in
between the seat so I had to relax and slowly bring it back. When I lifted it,
I realized my bones were all out, my hands were crooked and I managed to come
out of the car and there was blood all over,” she narrated.
What
followed after the incident were long and painful trips to the hospital to have
her broken arm mended and then physiotherapy.
She
confessed, that lessons have been learnt and though she could really do nothing
about the situation at the time, she has learned to manage her ‘speed craze’
among other things.
She
further urged all and sundry to do the right thing and save lives on Ghana’s
roads.
Watch her full emotional interview with GhanaWeb’s Laud Harris
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