Veteran Nigerian singer, Onyeka Onwenu, has opened up about her married life when she was younger in a recent interview.
In an interview with Kikilomo Atanda-Owo, the veteran singer and actress revealed her marriage would have killed her if she continued to stay.
She said, “I went through my marriage, it was difficult because I really did not want my marriage to end but I could not take it anymore, it would have killed me.”
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“I always say this and that is the truth. It was not good for the children to live in that kind of environment where the mother is depressed, the mother is carrying the weight of the whole family.”
According to the 70-year old singer, she raised her children from kindergarten to Master’s level and her husband never paid school fees or performed his duties as a man with family.
She said: “I raised my children from kindergarten to master’s degree. My husband didn’t pay school fees for one day, didn’t buy clothes, didn’t pay for holidays, didn’t give me housekeeping money…..”
