American rapper T.I has revealed he takes his daughter for virginity tests every year.
According to TMZ, the 39-year-old rapper made this revelation known during a podcast. The podcast, “Ladies Like Us,” hosted by two ladies, Nazanin and Nadia, had T.I as their guest recently when the conversation about the dreaded s*x talk with kids came up.
In the course of answering this question that T.I revealed he accompanies his daughter to the hospital for a virginity test.
“Deyjah’s 18, just graduated high school now, and she’s attending her first year of college, figuring it out for herself. And yes, not only have we had the conversation, we have yearly trips to the gynaecologist to check her hymen.”
T.I. says he’s simply exercising his right as a parent to steer his daughter away from what he considers bad decisions. One of the hosts of the podcast then went on the say most children later appreciate the decisions their parents made on their behalf.
However, T.I’s revelation has got people talking. While some people feel the rapper is doing the right thing as a parent, others feel he has gone too far.