According to UK mirror, a Twenty seven years old Shona Knight has undergone medical tests and even taken a lie detector test on TV to prove to her family that she is still a virgin.
Miss Knight, 27, said that she was left feeling suicidal after incorrect rumours began surfacing.
"I’m not exaggerating when I say to be accused of sex before marriage has ruined my life. It goes against everything I believe in; I have been saving myself for marriage because that is what I believe it and I want the people around me, my family and the people I love to know beyond any doubt I am telling the truth when I say I am a virgin.
"It’s been proven by a
medical assessment and by a lie detector so there should be no question at all now
but I’ll happily do anything I can to prove I am a virgin because it’s the
truth.
"If I don’t do this I
will never be able to marry within my culture and have the family I crave so
life might as well be over.
"My parents were
traditional and I was raised like most travelling girls, with a view to
marrying young and settling down to raise a family.”
Brides are expected to
remain pure until their wedding night and Shona was more than happy to follow
tradition like her friends.
She was engaged to marry
when she turned 17, but broke of the engagement because she felt too young to
marry. But the decision she says triggered the rumours that have dogged her
ever since.
"People started
talking about me and rumours started to spread and grow as a result of me
breaking off the engagement.
"Soon my parents heard
that people were saying I was no longer a virgin. It wasn’t true and many women
reading this will not understand why it bothered me so much. "But in our
community it is totally unacceptable. I knew my parents were mortified like
me.”
Last year, almost a decade
after the rumours that she was not a virgin started Shona hit rock bottom.
Relying on antidepressants
and battling suicidal thoughts she said that at times she felt her life might
as well be over.
She insists her parents had
always remained supportive but feared that even her own mother Valerie, 64, was
starting to wonder if there was any truth behind the rumours.
So in a last ditch attempt
Shona called a national television programme and volunteered to take a lie
detector test.
She was accompanied on the
show which aired earlier this year by her mother who admitted she would disown
her daughter were she found to by lying.
"The public’s reaction to that was pretty
extreme but it didn't bother me because I knew I was telling the truth.
"And if the test had
shown I had been lying to my mother all these years I would not blame her for
disowning me.”
UK Mirror
There is more to her story not just virginity issue
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