A popular Nigerian actress, Jumoke George, has recounted how her dad disowned her, her mum abandoned her, her stepmother ill-treated her, and was abused by her husband.
The Nollywood star made the revelation about her growing up and married life when she featured on a podcast: “Talk to B.”
In the podcast, anchored by a Nollywood actress, Biola Adebayo, George said: “My stepmother was even worse.
“From a tender age, I was sent to a herbalist’s house.
“It’s a pity and it saddens my heart that I am even the one that will prepare the food that the charm will be added to for my dad.
“You can’t even handle a slave the way they handled me.
“Today, I just put an end to that kind of job I am always sent.”
George said things went from bad to worse when she summoned the courage to tell her dad about the experience.
She said he immediately disowned her.
She said: “When I pleaded with him to allow me to talk, he said: ‘From henceforth, I disown you.’
“And he went into his room.
“And the next thing I saw was that he came out with his gun.
“It was from that moment I entered into a problem.
“The big mistake I made in my whole life was crying that I wanted to go with my dad when he got transferred.
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“I was sleeping around.
“I even slept on the table they used for selling goods by the roadside.
“If I see an abandoned vehicle, I will sleep inside.
“Then, I used a safety pin to hold my bras.
“I used twine ropes to hold my pants.”
On her troubled relationship with her mother, George revealed: “It wasn’t until four or five years ago that I knew what I did to offend my mother.
“But then, she pleaded with me that I should forgive her, that she didn’t have Christ, and it was a time of ignorance, and she was feeling hurt then.”
On her marriage, George told Adebayo that her ex-husband would frequently beat her, even in public.
She said: “When pregnancy came in, my journey with him was like going from frying pan to fire.
“He will always beat me.
“It got to a stage, he would come and meet me at movie rehearsal to beat me so that we would both roll down from upstairs.”
