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Once a shining music star under Ogopa Deejays music label, singer Marya was poised to become a huge artiste, until she met her baby daddy when she had just left the record house in 2014. It is that meeting that she attributes to her downfall.

The Chokoza hitmaker says that they met and started living together in Dubai where she got pregnant, a situation that left her utterly stressed, as she wasn’t yet ready to be a mum. “Our relationship did not end; we just disagreed and I came back to Kenya.

I was a few months pregnant. I was so stressed I did not know how to be a mum and a single mum in short. I even wanted to commit suicide. I wanted to kill myself. The people I approached at that time thinking that they would help me, did not help,” said Marya on Mungai Eve YouTube channel, adding that she is still struggling and raising her son alone, who is four years old now. She also dispelled the notion that she once worked in a brothel due to her struggles.

“I didn’t work there. I was just associated with a bad company of women,” she said.