Many know her for her raucous, unfiltered talks on radio. With a larger than life personality, 27-year-old Michelle Kamene Goro has been a victim of a lot of misunderstanding. A lot of people term her controversial for her drinking, relationships, and readiness to live life on her own terms. But when Kamene signed up to be on radio she didn’t do it to silence herself or tone things down.
‘Speaking my mind is something my mom encouraged me to do from a young age. I love to be honest. It became even more profound when there was an audience,’ she tells me from her hospital bed at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. She has torn her meniscus (the c-shaped pad of cartilage in the knee that acts as a shock absorber) and had just undergone a second surgery to repair it. We had rescheduled the interview twice and would have rescheduled it again but she was a good spot about it and she even promised to show up in good form for the shoot two days later.
‘Unfortunately, when you try to be real and express what you really think, people tend to label you “controversial” ’, she complains. ‘For instance, when the body count story came out (the revelation about her 27 sexual partners), people labeled me “controversial” when it was the plain truth.
‘It was one of the worst periods of my life. Not that I regret what I said, but the backlash was huge. A lot of corporates dropped me; even my employer at the time put me on an ice block. It was terrible, just for sharing an honest fact. What wasn’t seen was the truth behind what I said; we live in a society where it is important to know how many sexual partners you have had, especially for women. Know your numbers!
‘If I was a man this conversation would have been different. Every condom company would have run to him for endorsements,’ she adds.
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