Nollywood legend, James Ikechukwu Esomugha also known as Jim Iyke, has opened up on how he lost two marriages because of his mother’s death.
The actor, in an interview with Chude, said he has had two failed marriages and they crashed because he was grieving.
According to him, he was very close to his late mother and when she died, his father and himself got hit the most.
Jim said his wife was pregnant with their first child when he lost his mother and he was not there for her. He said he doted on the child more than the wife.
Narrating his struggles with grief and healing, he said, “I suffered a loss. My mum died. She was my best friend and business strategist. …she is so smart that it is ridiculous…it was a relationship based on friendship and mutual respect….she always had the right words and advise to me….
“I lost all that when she died, there was a spirituality and connection that I lost after she died….we were so close that it took them 72 hours to inform me of her death…
“I am a product of love, my parents were so inlove with each other so her death shattered my dad too….their kind of relationship opened my eyes to the kind of marriage I wanted too….
“I didn’t grieve all through the process of her death and burial…but by the time i started to grieve, my wife became pregnant with my first son and i wasn’t as loving as I should be…..
“I lost my sense of humor and the lion in me so she suffered for that…i became an obsessive dad after my son arrived…i took all my love and care on our son and abandoned her instead…
“I was an excellent dad but horrible husband so after a while she left, she said she couldn’t find the man she married anymore and we quit but still friend.”
Jim Iyke noted that he has three children from his previous relationships and two marriages.
