Ace Nigerian singer, Onyeka Onwenu, has disclosed that if she had remained in her unhappy marriage, she would have lost her life to it.
The singer, who recently clocked 70, opened up on her relationship life while speaking in an interview with Kikilomo Atanda-Owo, the media personality.
The singer indicated that she was hoping her marriage would not end but disclosed that if she had stayed longer in the marriage, it would have killed her because it was very difficult for her to cope in it.
She said:“I went through it, it was difficult because I really didn’t want my marriage to end but I couldn’t take it anymore, it would have killed me.”
“I always say that that is the truth and 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.
“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.
“But he was a nice and kind and generous man and basically, there was control where if you didn’t do the things he wanted, ‘well I’m not going to help you, I’m not going to give you money’.
“And I would like to say this to Nigerians, any man who has children has a family and decides not to take care of them, you’ll have to answer to God.”
Onwenu got married to a Muslim Yoruba man in 1984. She is a the mother of two children, named Tijani Charles and Ibrahim.
