In a recent statement, prominent Nollywood actress Yvonne Jegede for the first time revealed details about her relationship with ex-husband Olakunle ‘Abounce’ Fawole.
Yvonne Jegede stated during an appearance on Mercys Menu, presented by her colleague Mercy Johnson Okojie, that her ex-husband had mistreated their 4-year-old boy and does not want to see him.
When questioned about her relationship with her ex-husband by Mercy Johnson, Yvonne Jegede replied it was a phase she enjoyed because of the experience she gained.
She claimed that she doesn’t want to talk about it since the relationship didn’t work out and it’s something they can’t push because they’re on separate pages, not reading the same book, and by extension, no future in their union.
She stated that before they married, they were very close friends, which made them best friends for years. after he asked him out, she accepted his proposal to marry him because she revealed that he was a man with a good mind, sympathy, and humanity, but after they married, she discovered that he was for someone else, not her, and they had to part ways.
Speaking further, Yvonne Jegede stated that her initial emotion was panic when she realized they weren’t working out and needed to split ways.
She said she was afraid about what others would say.
She also stated that those who condemned her were not around during the marriage to observe how things went for her. However, Jegede stated that there was no domestic violence or anything of the type.
While on the show, Yvonne Jegede states that she is so pleased that she has moved on from the marriage without worrying what others are saying, claiming that if she had stayed, she would not be a happy person now.
The actress stated that she and her ex-husband are no longer in a relationship and do not speak. She pondered, however, how a friendship as strong as theirs could deteriorate to the degree it is today.
In her words; “We don’t talk. He doesn’t come around, he doesn’t call, he doesn’t do nothing. I don’t know what it is that could cause a friendship… because apart from the marriage, we had a good, very solid friendship. I think I still look at that friendship and believe this thing wey we dey experience now, we no suppose to, at least that friendship wey we get supposed to cover up for somethings. He no dey call.
Yvonne Nelson also spoke on the show about having to offer her ex-husband an ultimatum before he publicly admitted that he was the father of their baby. According to her, she threatened to take Abounce’s surname from their son’s names if he turned five and his father did not check on him.
She uttered, “Even the first time wey he come house, when he finally publicly accept say na him pikin I born, I give am ultimatum say if he no come, once my pikin reach five years, I go remove his surname comot for him name because I get to put Jegede Fawole for there because I know as I take suffer go America go born the pikin.
“I suffer, I clear my account say this America, my pikin must get another passport. I say as long as na only me carry this problem emotionally, financially, otherwise, I’m going to put my name with his surname, so I put a compound name, Jegede Fawole.”
Jegede added that following that, Abounce came to meet the kid, who was just 5 months old at the time.
She also stated that it was the last time the actor saw their kid, and that all subsequent attempts to visit him had failed.
The actress added that she had always feared her kid asking her about his father, and since it had already occurred, she contacted Abounce’s brother to inform him that his son had been asking for him.
Despite this, the actor declined to show up, and his brother’s remark made it apparent that Abounce was not interested in meeting his son.
She added; “Your gift is in my hand yet you don’t care. You see, one moment I dreaded the most is for my child to wake up one day and ask where is my father and it has started happening.
One day when he asked, I had to send messages to his siblings to ask him to come and check up on him but it yielded no result. It was so bad that my father had to represent my son at school for a father’s day event they recently had. It was embarrassing for me but I’m waiting to see when he will show up or if he wouldn’t till the boy turns 18.”
See the responses that have begun trailing the video of Yvonne Jegede and Mercy Johnson below.
kingnexa: If you knew you wanted a father’s love for your son, then you should have stayed back😠.
wemstar_: I dnt want a man as disappointment, God 🙏.
topemobayo: After you shut the guy out, you are now here to accuse him of neglecting his son. Hogwash.
awesome_timsquare: i hope he sees this and comes for his son.
jforjayana: How people go from being bestfriends to sworn enemies will always be a mystery. You have a problem with her but your child did absolutely nothing to you. Be involved in your child’s life. He didnt ask to be born.
carist_6: The last slide na when some of una here na shout God when?😂.