Yah! Litany of shattered marriages!!!
2014 has indeed been very memorable.
Am gonna bring to you guys many strategic things that made the year very
awesome, both the good, the bad and the ugly.
We are starting with the turbulent
wind of discord that blew away celebrity marriages this year. Unfortunately, while
one of these marriages lasted for as long as 6 years, a couple of the broken
and shattered unions couldn’t tarry for just 12 months!
Now, here is the gist of
what went wrong in the failed celebrity marriages as chronicled by ENCOMIUM
Weekly’s Associate Editor, UCHE OLEHI. Observably, I decided to skip one of the
most popular cases (which he chronicled) for reasons best known to me…lol!Read the gist below...
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| INI EDO & PHILIP EHIAGWINA (2008-2014 = 6 years) |
Unperturbed by rumours of
adultery encircling them (the estranged couple), Ini Edo vehemently denied
sleeping around, while in marriage.
“I asked for a divorce from my
ex-husband because of irreconcilable differences. I never cheated on my husband. There’s a conscious and malicious attempt at
tarnishing my image. This whole saga is
familiar. Let’s not forget the
past. Thank you and God bless.”
Now as free as air, Ini is really
having a swell time even as her foes and friends are revealing the real reasons
her marriage crumbled.
In a widely circulated piece
released to the media, a US-based showbiz journalist, who’s also Ini’s kinsman,
Ekerete Udo made a serious effort to clean up the battered image of the
embattled actress. The writer claimed
Ini Edo never slept around. We were also
made to believe she did everything to keep her home. Her estranged hubby, Philip was, however,
portrayed as a gold digger who was only after his wife’s ‘wealth.’
Philip was specifically accused
of insisting on being a co-owner of Ini Edo’s N70 million Lekki house. According to the story, Philip had to move
out of Ini’s Lekki (Lagos) home and moved in with another lady for three
months. The Texas, US-based businessman
is yet to defend himself.
No matter who is right or wrong,
one thing is sure and certain, the six year big budget wedding of Ini Edo and
erstwhile heartthrob, Philip Ehiagwina has finally hit the rocks after months
of speculations that all is not well with their union.
It would be noted that Ini
actually spent more time in Nigeria than in her matrimonial home in Houston,
Texas, USA, all through the marriage.
Not having a baby after six years
couldn’t also have saved her marriage.
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| UCHE IWUJI & JUWON LAWAL (Nov. 16, 2012 -2014 = 1 year plus) |
Alleged marital infidelity
finally forced oil tycoon, Juwon Lawal to kick out his pretty actress wife,
Uche Iwuji early this year. Not minding
she already had a baby for him, Juwon issued a press statement notifying the
public he’s done with perhaps, one of Nigeria’s most controversial
actresses. Uche Iwuji had allegedly
dated former Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo and yet another footballer before
she was introduced to Juwon through a lady friend.
Considering the weight of the
allegation of the last affair that implicated Uche, it is unlikely that she
would be forgiven by her estranged husband who says her case is “once a friend,
always a friend.” Uche Iwuji would have
wished a once-a-wife, always-a-wife case.
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| UCHE OGBODO & UBBY ATO (2013-2014) |
Controversial actress Uche
Ogbodo’s short-lived marriage to ex-footballer, Ubby Ato is good for a movie
script.
Barely living with her husband
for more than four weeks, she left her matrimonial home pregnant. She explains why:
“I realized I had made the
greatest mistake of my life. The foundation
of the union was based on lies and deceit.
We had been dating for almost a year and I thought I knew everything,
but nothing prepared me for what unfolded.
Yes, I’m the one walking out of the pack of lies. I’m not going to
pretend because I want to be married. I
am not desperate and I would rather swallow my pride and accept I made a
mistake than forge ahead in lies.
“On the verge of trying to
salvage the situation, I found out I was expecting a child. I kept quiet to the rumours making the rounds
because I was left with the option of thinking for my child and trying to
salvage a dead situation. But now I have
finally made up my mind to break off the engagement and my reasons are
irreconcilable differences.
“I just want to be left alone to
take care of my child. I wasn’t married. I was engaged to be married but as things
stand now the engagement is officially broken due to irreconcilable differences
and since I’m having a baby soon, my doctor has advised me to rest, as my
health and that of my baby are the most important right now.”
Interestingly, Ubby Ato’s dad, a
clergy would fault the actress’ claim, insisting they paid her bride price.
Uche elsewhere had also admitted she was married in a sense though it wasn’t a
traditional or white wedding.
“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 Igboland, there are
rites you adhere to before you can say this is my wife and I did a couple of
them,” she told a national daily on September 27, 2014.
It was also alleged that the
popular actress walked out of her marriage because her US-based hubby had
terminal ailment. It was equally
speculated that her husband’s family wasn’t sure Ubby was responsible for
Uche’s pregnancy. A development that
made them suggest a DNA test after her delivery. But Uche was reportedly said to have opted
out of the union while rejecting any test of her baby’s paternity.
The long and short of the story
is that actress Uche Ogbodo has called it quits with her marriage that couldn’t
see the next year.
It would be recalled that Uche
Ogbodo met her estranged hubby, Ubby Ato at a friend’s birthday party months
back.
Source: Encomium Magazine
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