EARLY LIFE
I was also interviewed by Itv presenter Antoine Allen in 2016 on his website 'AntoineSpeaks' about my childhood.
In the "Early personal life" interview I stated that, "My early life was very restricted as I had a very strict upbringing. I wanted to fit in with my friends in primary school so I was against my parents and was closely associated with a pedophile maid best friend Andre Sterling like a ‘Second mother’ as she was trusted who took me places as well to see my ‘friends’ but it was manipulation on her path. How could a pedophile have honestly wished well on me or been like ‘second family’ truly? She wanted me to be a failure in life and be a menace. When I look back at my childhood, I want to inspire children out there and let them know how important it is to tell their parents, guardians or family if someone is child grooming or sexually abusing them even if it means that they would be controlled more. My childhood abuser did not want me to tell my teachers, family, friends or parents and wanted me to see her as my ‘best friend’." I believe that I was 'brainwashed' as a child by that woman who lied to my family about who she had been, after she started sexually abusing me at 5 years old, after starting to work for my parents at 3 years old and the maid introduced me to pornography when I was being babysat. I remember telling a friend in primary school about the situation, but she did not tell the Principal or any teachers. When my parents were not around my childhood home, in my pre-teens I watched a tv show in the early morning hours called 'Queer as Folk' (unsuitable for kids due to the content) with the pedophile as well who told me to never tell my family, trying to seduce my thinking. Andre told me to kill my mother, when I was a little girl, so that I would not be controlled anymore but I loved my parents and violence never solves anything. I started to smoke marijuana casually/secretly (not addicted in any way) at 14 years old when the maid brought it to my home and would drink alcohol all of the time in my adolescence, like many teenagers that wanted to be "adults" before the legal age. I was also a teeny bopper. I would practice djing with my older brother Chris who was part of a dj group in secondary school called 'Siberia Sounds'. I believe that due to the child sexual abuse/child grooming by the maid, I was blinded throughout my childhood and adolescence with regards to decision-making before I developed a spiritual relationship with Jesus as a Born-Again Christian. As I remember, my parents were very kind people while they were still married, although very strict, and would always visit and invite children from St. Dominic's Children's Home in Belmont, Trinidad with Sister Marina to the main family home I grew up in for breakfast parties after church. The pedophile was so manipulative that she did not want me to see what she was doing as evil or wrong and would often go to church with my family on Sunday mornings for the weekly hour service. She also had a bible in her bedroom at the house. I remember the roof of my childhood home (the only roof in the neighborhood with similar roofs) having several or more corbeaux (Trinidadian Black Vultures) settled on it when I returned home after secondary school daily on afternoons and believe that the woman put witchcraft on my family. I did not tell my parents or family anything until I was 19 years old although I told a classmate in primary school and a friend in secondary school. Although there were times that I got A+ in particular subjects on my report cards, I struggled academically at Maria Regina Grade School because of what transpired with the pedophile although I was the Head Girl in Grade 5.
I believe that most people are former victims of something and want to be an advocate for children around the world, which led me to join the Heroes Foundation (Big Brother, Big Sister) in 2010 although I am no longer a member/volunteer. As an adult, I do not smoke anything and do not drink alcohol (only on rare & holiday occasions).
Another experience when I was in my adolescence was when my family friend/bodyguard Derrick Nelson from Tobago was attacked with guns and broke both legs in a dry river when he attempted to escape. He died in the hospital. The reason for his attack was because he got involved with a woman from the courthouse and was seen as the "Perfect Romeo".
I remember the good people who worked for my family like the dead bodyguard who died in the hospital because of the gun injuries, the family police officer Jason Seecharan from Award-winning soca group H20 Phlo and other loyal people such as my childhood driver Andy Absalom from Santa Cruz, Trinidad. I also had a live at home 'sister' Nicole Ross from St. Dominic's Children's Home in Belmont, Trinidad as a child and adolescent who I have not seen since then.
My brother Chris Volney was kidnapped at age 21 and put in his car trunk at gun point, left to suffocate but survived while his ex-girlfriend was raped in his same car in front of him.
In 1996 when my family and I were travelling to Europe for the first time, one of the engines of the aircraft caught on fire while in the air and I remember it being traumatizing as a child. The plane had an emergency landing in Barbados.
I have never been married and do not have any children because I do not want to, loving single life forever, especially online. I have two nieces (14 and 19) and a nephew.
According to the Christian bible, Fornication and Adultery are sins.
However, I do not judge or condemn anyone including what is condemned in the bible as I am not God, humbly, and it states in Matthew 7:1-3
"7 Judge not, that ye be not judged.2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
I know people who are my friends who do not believe in the same things as me & do not judge them in any way because I know that human beings like myself had different experiences and lifestyles so who am I to assess anyone? Who am I.
When I was a teenager, I modelled for an Award-winning Carnival costume band in 2007 in Tnt and was a Brand Ambassador/Promotional model for Sunsilk Hair Brand in Trinidad after being discovered at Inglefield, Ogilvy & Mather Caribbean Ltd. after an audition in 2007-2008.
I did not pursue modelling internationally although I had the opportunity to do more locally after another audition at Triniscene. My parents did not allow me to model before 18 years old although I wanted to.
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT FAMILY BACKGROUND
Other information is that my cousin was the poet Phyllis Shand Allfrey from Dominica (my grandmother's first cousin), my great-great-grandfather was Sir Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls from Dominica and my great-great-great-Uncle was his brother Frederic Nicholls, one of the founders of the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada who appeared on the Cover of the Busy Man's Magazine in 1906, currently known as Maclean's Magazine.
My paternal great-great-grandmother was Charlotte Shillingford-Royer from Dominica. I am in the book 'The Shillingfords of Dominica and their Family Tree' with 2,000 other family members and can be found on Pg. 105. I did not inherit anything financially.
My maternal grandfather was a Barbadian-Trinidadian Olympian in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and studied law in the UK. He was a Magistrate in Trinidad before he died when I was a baby, after being the bodyguard of the Rt. Hon. Dr. Eric Williams (First Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago).
OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT ME
I am mixed with Yoruba (West Africa), Portuguese and Island Carib ancestry on my Trinidadian maternal side with a Black mother (70 years old) and my Dominican-Trinidadian father who was born on Montserrat, Caribbean (British Overseas Territory) was Multiracial with part African, Amerindian (Kalinago from Dominica), White British and French ancestry, who died in 2022 at 69 years old.
My dead maternal grandfather was Barbadian-Trinidadian who was Black and my grandmother's family are from St. Vincent & the Grenadines with Black, Island Carib & Portuguese ancestry.
My paternal deceased Saint-Lucian grandfather Cyril Fredrick Louis Volney was mixed race and was an Island Manager for Cable & Wireless; my deceased grandmother Rosalind Nicholls-Volney was White and of Dominican descent, a member of the Dominica Red Cross Society & a housewife.
My paternal great-grandfather was Joseph Louis Henry Volney from Saint Lucia.
My parents were both educated with bachelor's degrees in law at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Barbados and Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad. My maternal grandmother was educated at Providence Girls' Catholic Secondary School in Trinidad but did not graduate from it and my dead grandfather graduated from law school in England, before he became a Magistrate in Trinidad.
My maternal grandfather on the far left with Rt. Hon Dr. Eric Williams when they were alive
My maternal Great-Uncle Baldwin Pascal and I during the Covid19 pandemic, before he died in 2023
My maternal grandmother
My maternal grandparents
My paternal grandfather with his siblings when they were alive
My paternal grandparents with my dad, Uncle Cyril when they were alive and some of their other siblings
My grandmother Rosalind Nicholls-Volney before she died
I did not grow up knowing that information and I encourage my fans/friends to do research on their families as well as they may find something interesting.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
I graduated from Maria Regina Grade School before graduating from St. Joseph's Convent, Port-of-Spain where I was the Victrix Ludorum for 3 years in a row. I received a bronze relay medal in the 200m with Nyoka Giles at the Secondary School Championships in Trinidad. At CXC CSEC equivalent to O'Levels, I received 5 A's (I's) in English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, Principles of Business and Spanish while I got II's in Biology, Caribbean History and French. I almost received a I (A) in Biology. At CXC Cape equivalent to A'levels, I received a I in Caribbean Studies, I in Communication Studies, a II in Sociology and two III's in other subjects, graduating with my secondary school diploma in 2007. I received a Metaphysics certificate at FHEQ Level 4 in 2011 and an Undergraduate Advanced diploma at FHEQ Level 6 (with distinction) in Data & Systems Analysis at Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education from 2012-2013. I studied Computer Science & Poetry at the University of the West Indies Mona Campus in Jamaica for 1 year but don't have a degree in it. I graduated from the University of the West Indies with a Public Relations diploma and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, minor in Psychology then changed the minor to Communication Studies so I did a mixture of Sociology, Statistics, Psychology, Social Work, Poetry, Communication Studies and other courses. I graduated in 2020 with Second Class Honours based on the UWI GPA Grading Scale after 2014, where before I would have had a higher degree classification. I really like writing essays and received 5.0 out of 6 in the Analytical Writing Section of the GRE.
Literary Awards 2012-
2. Cultured Vultures Poetry Contest 2015- 3rd place winner for poem 'Oasis'
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