Child Molestation, Lesbianism, and the Occult - Then she said Yes to Jesus!

“I look at myself in the mirror and my eyes are pitch black. I hear these three questions….”            

Breyonté Andrews was only seven when her identity was shattered. She was raised by a single mom and living with an aunt, but no one realized the damage her aunt’s boyfriend was causing. She says, “I remembered one night waking up, um, to him touching me --- I wasn't understanding why this was happening, if anyone else was aware. I began to really question who I was; I questioned my identity; I questioned my gender at the time.”

Breyonté’s language was silence, until one day, a TV talk show explained her trauma. Breyonté’s shares that, “it finally clicked that the same thing that this lady is describing is the same thing that actually happened to me. And that also is currently still happening in the house with my cousins. I was so frightened and traumatized after realizing that this thing that has been done to me repeatedly is actually a very wrong thing.”

Gripped by fear, she held her secret for the next 9 years. Shame and confusion made her question who she was. She says, “it really caused me to run to baggy clothes to really hide my body, from men, from myself. During my freshman year of high school is when I came into agreement with a lie of, I was born a lesbian.”

At 16, she finally came out to her mom in a letter --- it shattered their family, and left Breyonté with guilt, in addition to her shame.  Years later, 21-year-old Breyonté was dealt a major blow: her mother was diagnosed with cancer… and passed away within months.

Before long, Breyonté moved to Atlanta, searching for a connection. She found two lesbian women who felt like family—but actually led her into a life of partying, heavy drugs, and the occult. According to Breyonté, “she had a gift of speaking to the dead. And so I was definitely all in afterwards. I wanted to know more. I wanted to also talk to my mom, so I set up a little altar for my mother.”  It wasn’t long before Breyonté was immersed in spiritual bondage. Then, one night at a party, she came face to face with the darkness within. Breyonté shares:

“I look at myself in the mirror and my eyes are pitch black. I hear these three questions --- What are you doing? What have you become and how did you get here? And I'm stuck in this just trance-like state, and then I'm released from it. And I remember immediately saying, I have to find a church.”

That week she visited a small Pentecostal church where a pastor gave her a word. The same night, she was driving home during a storm. She thought about that word she received --- seconds later… she got caught in a flash flood and her car was swallowed by water. She ran, soaking wet, into a stranger’s driveway—crying out….. The outward change began first. The clothes.the identity. She gave away every piece of her old wardrobe—put on her first dress—and felt something she had never felt before: freedom. That same year… she met Michael and fell in love. They married in 2020 and today are raising two beautiful daughters.
Breyonté stands fully delivered, free, and with a new identity in christ. She is now serving alongside her husband in ministry.