Popular Nigerian actress, Yvonne Jegede, recently opened up in an emotional chat with Mercy Johnson about her ex-husband, Olakunle ‘Abounce’ Fawole. Jegede was a guest on Mercy’s cooking show when she was asked to speak about her relationship with Abounce.
According to the single mother, their relationship did not work out, and it could not be forced.
She however admitted that they had been very close friends for years and that she married him because he was a good person.
We were very very close for years. He had been through some of my relationships, I had been through some of his… “Because na very good guy, guy wey get very good mind, na im make me marry am, he get sympathy, na person e be, but I guess na person for another person, no be for me, so we got to go our separate ways.”
Speaking further, she noted that her first reaction was fear when she decided that they were not working out and needed to part ways.
According to her, she was fearful of what people would say. She also added that people who critized her were not in the marriage to see how things were going for her.
Jegede, however, admitted that there was no domestic violence or anything of the sort.
She said:
“First of all, I dey fear, how I wan tell people say I no wan do again, marriage wey never even reach two years, say I no want. I don see the future say the future no dey so na to reverse comot for there”.
“I no go through anything o, he no beat me, he no do anything to me, I just wake up one day say this road e no go work, make I dey go. And I’m glad I took that decision because if I had stayed back just because of what people would say, I won’t be happy today.”
She and her ex-husband no longer have a relationship, and they do not even talk. She wondered how a friendship like theirs that was so solid could degenerate to the point where it is now.
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.”
