Gospel artist Victor Thompson, renowned for his hit track “This Year,” has opened up about his past, revealing how he once sold weed and alcohol to sex workers.
In a candid conversation with Chude Jideonwo, Thompson shared his experiences of resorting to selling marijuana and alcohol to sex workers to survive after losing both parents at the age of 12. He detailed his incredible transformation journey from those difficult times to his current success.
Thompson described the daily challenges he faced, including juggling multiple jobs to make ends meet. By day, he sold sachet water on the streets, and by night, he operated a small shop near a brothel, providing booze, marijuana, and cigarettes to sex workers.
In his words:
“At a time, I was selling alcohol, weed, cigarettes, and hawking pure water. In the morning and afternoon time, I did vulcanizing, shoe-making, and hawked pure water but at night go back to my shop which was close to a brothel to sell alcohol, weed, and cigarettes. Most of my customers were the prostitutes.
“I lost my parents when I was between 12 and 14. My dad passed first, I think I was 10 or thereabout. When my dad died, my aunties threw us out of our dad’s house. We didn’t have a place to sleep. God so good, a carpenter was so kind and gave us an empty land to sleep. It’s a bush so at night, I would sneak my mum in, so that was how we lived for years. But she couldn’t cope then she passed.”