Auntie Jemimah: I left accounting job to pursue comedy

But before the laughter and the smiles, she had to endure the bitter lemons of life – difficult events that would push her up the wall, and to near breaking point.

Auntie Jemimah spoke to Citizen Digital about her struggle with drug addiction at a young age, a tough education life, and enrolment at a rehabilitation centre – in an attempt to collect whatever was left of her life.

“One day I woke up, packed my things and told my mother that I wanted to go to rehab, and in September 2006, I was enrolled in the rehab,” she told Citizen Digital.

Her decision to enroll to a rehab gave her a new lease of life, after a life of turmoil.

After the recommended 90 days in the rehab, she went back to school, her fourth high school in a span of a few months.

“I was able to complete my education, a changed person, and performed well, I was the top student,” said Auntie Jemimah who scored a grade B in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE).

After school, she had this burning desire to study Theatre Arts, but her parents had other ideas.

“I always wanted to be on radio,” says Auntie Jemimah, who ended up studying accounting, but her heart was in media, in content creation.

Then in 2016 – she became a viral sensation courtesy of a video she had done.

Life, however, would deal her a blow after she lost her unborn baby. This, she says, was her lowest moment in life, an experience that also taught her a lot of life lessons about motherhood, grief, family and love.