Vanessa Mdee goes in depth about losing her eyesight 9 years ago

Former Tanzanian songstress Vanessa Mdee is finally opening up on how she lost her eyesight, the journey to reconstructive surgery and moments of insecurities that she faced once netizens took note of her deformed eye.

Taking to her YouTube channel dubbed Vee and Roo the mother of 2 recounted the onset of her issues narrating;

“In 2015, I went to Nairobi, Kenya for Coke Studio with Burna Boy, and we were performing. It was a lot of fun. I landed in Nairobi on Sunday and went to sleep. On Monday morning, I woke up with excruciating pain in my left eye. I couldn’t understand what it was. I shared with my team but didn’t want to make a big deal out of it,”

She went on to add how contrary to her expectations the pain did not go away, lasting for an entire week which forced her to seek medical intervention.

“The pain got crazier as the week went on. I went to see a specialist, and he said I had experienced retinal detachment. I didn’t understand it back then, but over time I have become more informed.

I was losing my eyesight day by day…

We went into some emergency procedure and the doctor did the best he could but we couldn’t save my eyesight. So I ended up losing my eyesight about 10 days after. For someone born with two seeing eyes, it was quite a blow,” the now US based content creator candidly said as she walked her fans down memory lane.