Actress Uche Ogbodo's marriage ended a few months after it was contracted..while she was pregnant. Speaking to
Vanguard about it, Uche said her marriage ended because it was full of lies.
"My marriage was full of lies. I cannot tell you in detail what those
lies were, if that’s what you’re trying to make me do but it was based
on lies. It’s a pity it didn’t work out. I didn’t go into the marriage
to crash it. I wanted a family; I wanted a loving home and a loving
husband. That was why I went into it in the first place but as nature
would have it, I didn’t get any of those. I still thank God my head is
intact."
Was it really a marriage?
It was a marriage but we didn’t do any wedding. We didn’t do any court
marriage or church wedding. We did nothing. We didn’t even do
traditional marriage but in my culture, there are many processes to
getting married and I did a few of those, so you can say I was married.
In Igbo land, there are rites you adhere to before you can say this is
my wife and I did a couple of them.
Why did you do the rites in secret?
You cannot do rites openly; it’s just a family thing, family members
only. It’s not a traditional wedding. If I had done traditional wedding,
I would definitely invite people. If I had done a white wedding, I
would have invited people. If I had done a court marriage, I would still
have invited people but it was just rites. I didn’t do anything the
public needed to know, so you can’t say I did any marriage in secret.
Did he cheat on you? What exactly did he do?
No, it’s not about women. Like I always say, you cannot build a home on
sinking sand. You need to build a home on a rock. What I mean is that a
marriage built on deceit and lies is no marriage at all. If you want a
solid marriage, it must be built on honesty and trustworthiness. If not,
it’s definitely going to crash. If it doesn’t crash today, it will
crash tomorrow, so the lies are my reasons.
When did you discover he was lying to you?
Well, it was good while it lasted; he was a good man to me. I felt all I
saw was all I was supposed to see but later when one thing led to
another and things started unfolding. I started finding out that
everything was not what it seemed. Every relationship, you have problems
in-between, there is no relationship that just goes on smoothly.
In the process of friendship and dating, we had issues that we resolved
but when we took it to the next level we just couldn’t hold it together.
There are things you can hide as friends but as married couple it is
impossible because so many other things like families are involved.
As his girlfriend some things that were hidden were revealed when I
became his wife. What happened between me and my husband is between me
and my husband. We caused it, both of us caused it.
For how long were you guys together?
The marriage lasted barely a month before we started having issues. We were having issues before I found out I was pregnant.
Are you planning to raise your child as a single mother?
When I don’t have a husband, I’m raising her alone. I can’t throw my
child away. It’s not her fault that the marriage didn’t work out, it’s
not her fault that I got pregnant, it’s not her fault that we didn’t
take our marriage seriously, so I’m going to raise her no matter what
happens.
What attracted you to your husband before you married him?
I saw something in him that nobody had ever seen. I saw a man that was a
good man inside his heart. It’s not like when you’re looking at him
everything is perfect but I saw that deep down somewhere, there’s a good
man. Without the influence of society, he would have been different. I
blame it on society and I blame it on him. He allowed things to
influence but he was born a good man and I thought I could bring that
goodness out in him. I thought that I could change something and make it
better. I tried but it didn’t work out.
Was it completely his fault that your marriage crashed?
It’s our fault. We shouldn’t have allowed our marriage to crash. I
wouldn’t know my mistakes; he would tell you my mistakes. Maybe I was a
little too much to handle, maybe that’s why but I wouldn’t know until he
tells you his own side of the story.
Some people were saying you got into the marriage because of money?
I didn’t get into the marriage because of money in the first place. I
got into the marriage because I wanted to be married and because I saw
something in him that I felt would work out for me later in life. I
didn’t go into it because of money; there were no millions to spend so
it wasn’t about money. I don’t care what people say. What matters is the
truth and I try to be very straightforward when I deal with people. So,
it wasn’t about money because there was none
Others are saying you left him because of his brain tumor?
He doesn’t have brain tumor. He was sick at the time, he had issues but
his sickness is not the reason why our marriage crashed. Money was not
the issue either. I would definitely know about his health status
before I would marry a man. I knew what I was going into, so how could I
just leave a man because he had a brain tumor? It’s funny
You said he didn’t have a brain tumor, what was really wrong with him?
I cannot tell you, he would tell you. He was sick, he was treated but it
had nothing to do with the brain. He had surgery but it was not brain
tumor, it was not cancer, he was just sick and I thank God that he’s
alive. I don’t know why people just wake up and conclude things out of
the blue; you don’t know these people from Adam, you just read about
people and then you go and comment rubbish. You write rubbish to tear
people’s lives apart even when you know nothing about their issues.
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