Former Strictly star Ore Oduba has unveiled a new inking – just days after courageously going public about the porn addiction which had plagued him since the tender age of nine
Former Strictly Come Dancing champion Ore Oduba has shared that he’s got a meaningful new tattoo – just days after opening up about the porn addiction he has battled since childhood.
Posting a picture of his brand new inking, which reveals the word ‘Serendipity’ has been inked under his left collarbone, with a butterfly above, he shared an emotional post about faith, struggles which have seen him break down in tears – and ‘signs’ he finds impossible to ignore.
The 39 year old, revealing that this was his tenth tattoo to date. Wrote in a lengthy candid post, “Serendipity… If I could sum up this year in one word it would be this…
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“Sometimes the signs are SO loud you just cannot ignore them and so often this year I have had to just hold my hands up – or more likely, ball my eyes out – unable to believe what I am seeing, feeling or experiencing and simply recognise there are angels at work.”
He went on to say, “Of course not all of us are spiritual… my faith has been such a source of strength to me in the last two years.
“But I truly believe, whatever you believe, when you open your mind and soul to the possibility of a force way beyond our consciousness and control those signs start showing themselves in pretty sharp focus.
“In my experience, there’s been no greater guide… than my gut and my faith.”
It comes after Ore revealed he has battled a porn addiction since the age of nine – and was speaking out to raise awareness of the issue of children seeing sexual imagery on social media – and hopefully help others.
“Shame kept me silent for 30 years. It took me 30 years, two deaths, and a divorce to finally go: here’s what’s happening,’ he revealed, emotionally.
“This is me putting my life as it is on the line, to save my children and to guide anybody else’s children going into a world where at their fingertips, they can fall into something they never asked to.”
He added: “Part of me is terrified, the vast majority is terrified because I feel like, personally, for me, the rest of my life begins the day after this, as it’s a kind of a seminal draw-the-line moment.“
Ore explained that the first time he was shown adult content was on a computer by a friend’s older brother. “I remember being very intrigued and a feeling of eyes being opened. Whilst I wouldn’t say addiction set in immediately, the intrigue started immediately,“ he recalled.
“And it didn’t take long relatively speaking, for that intrigue to start running my mind over because at nine, at that age, you haven’t necessarily got full access.
“Wanting to find a way to address that intrigue, wanting to find ways of that awakening, wanting to replicate it or find it whether it was on television or in magazines.
“This is the problem with this form of addiction that even I could understand at 10. It’s so shameful. We can’t talk about it because there is a perceived nature to it that is everything that we hate, everything that we despise.“
Ore revealed that his upbringing with his strict father meant he felt he could never tell his family about his addiction.
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