Reality TV star and actress Bamike Olawunmi, popularly known as Bambam, has opened up about the traumatic experience she endured while giving birth to her first child, Zendaya, in 2020.

Speaking on a recent episode of the Me & My Girls podcast, Bambam revealed that her kidney failed, and her liver and other vital organs began shutting down during labor.

She attributed many stillbirths to medical negligence, saying, “A lot of stillbirths are due to negligence. It’s either the doctor was not sound, the nurse didn’t do her job on time, or the patient arrived at the hospital too late.”

Recalling her own near-death experience, she said, “During my first labor, my kidney failed, my heart was weak, my liver… everything was just shutting down. My daughter had detached from the placenta. If I had been a second late, she would have lost oxygen, and I would have had a stillbirth.”

Bambam admitted that the experience haunted her for a long time, saying, “The ‘what ifs’ tormented me. Every time I looked at her, I kept thinking, ‘What if?’ I had to get therapy to help me focus on gratitude.”