Junelle Bromfield Details Why She’s Afraid to Return to Jamaica
Jamaica’s estranged 400m athlete Junelle Bromfield does not feel safe to return to the island and she gave details in a sitdown with Simone Clarke. According to Clarke, Bromfield was not willing to travel to Jamaica to do the interview because she was scared after months of online threats.
Bromfield, confirmed the statement from Clarke, stating, “During the Olympics and even before, i had to turn off my inbox because i was receiving death threats from people, i had Jamaicans in my inbox saying that ‘they wish my foot get broken’ in the Olympics.”
In the Sim Soul Sessions interview, she also stated that she was told that she would be killed if she returned to Jamaica.
The quarter-miler expressed that despite wanting to visit the island to see her family, she does not feel it is “the right time” to return home. According to Junelle, people do not understand the “magnitude” of what she has been going through in the last couple of months.
“People say things without knowing how much hurt it might cause… It could be family, friends, they say stuff and they don’t know that they are basically creating trauma in children in adults because when they say it they are like ‘Oh we don’t mean anything by it’ but it’s not about the person who is tossing the insult basically, it’s about how the person takes it,” she outlined.
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The caption for the preview post reads, “This week’s episode with @junellebromfield was filmed in Orlando. We visited Junelle because she was afraid to come home. She shared that life after the Olympics has been good, but fear has kept her away, including receiving death threats. Junelle feels people don’t fully understand the challenges she’s faced in recent months.”
It continued, “Therapy has been her foundation during this time, and she started it thanks to her boyfriend, Noah Lyles. Driven by a fear of returning to poverty, she was determined to change her life. At just 8 years old, she decided she would become an Olympian. #SIMSoulSessions.”
Notably, the criticism Bromfield has been facing is a result of her American boyfriend Noah Lyles revealing in an interview that she told him secrets about Jamaican athletes.
