Ghanaian seeking to set the world record for the longest singing marathon, Afua Asantewaa, shared details about a harrowing experience she faced a day before embarking on her Guinness World Record challenge.

In her account, she revealed that armed robbers invaded her home at midnight on Sunday, December 24, 2023, just before the start of her sing-a-thon.

Fortunately, there were no casualties, and the robbers didn't take valuable items like phones and laptops. Instead, they only took her husband's deodorant and spray.

During an interview with GhOne TV, Afua Asantewaa explained that the traumatic incident affected her psychologically, impacting the initial day of her sing-a-thon challenge.

“Monday, before the actual sing-a-thon began, we were attacked in the night by robbers (armed men) in our house. We couldn't get in. And then, I think, the Wednesday before, I started on Sunday too. When we got home, they had broken into our home. But we don't know how they got in; they just scattered all our stuff.

"They didn't take the money; they didn't take anything. All they took was my husband's deodorant and spray.There were laptops, there was money, and they didn't take anything. They just came to mess the place up. That was the Wednesday before I started. So we had to leave home and then go lodge in a hotel and all that. So after the sing-a-thon, we couldn't have gone back home.

We had to lodge in a hotel."

When asked how it affected her psychologically, she retorted, “Thursday was terrible. Anybody who saw me on Thursday would have said somewhere that I'm stressed already. But they didn't know what was happening to me. Because it was Wednesday night, we couldn't sleep in our bedroom. We slept in the living room."

Afua Asantewaa concluded her Guinness World Record 'singathon' on Friday, December 29, 2023, having achieved an impressive 126 hours, surpassing the previous 105-hour record.

The determination of whether she officially broke the record will depend on the review conducted by the Guinness World Record team.