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  • Why I left barely a year into my marriage – Yvonne Jegede opens up

    Why I left barely a year into my marriage – Yvonne Jegede opens up

    Popular Nollywood actress, Yvonne Jegede has opened up about the circumstances that led to the separation from her ex-husband, Olakunle ‘Abounce’ Fawole, in 2019.

    In a snippet of the upcoming episode of “The Honest Bunch” podcast, Jegede disclosed a series of factors that led to end of the  union, after which expressed her regret in choosing love over financial stability in her marriage.

    The actress said her ex-husband inability to handle jokes and tagging playful mannerisms as “disrespect” contributed to their marriage crash.

    “He’s eight years older than me, but the moment we got married, if I tell am say e dey craze he will say I’m disrespecting him. It’s the same me, it’s the same se orie ope (are you crazy) that you know. I’ve always said this for over 10 years,” she said.

    When questioned about her decision to leave the marriage, Jegede clarified that the cause was not merely the perceived disrespect.

    “That was what made me pause, but it was not even close to what ended it,” she noted.

    She added that financial imbalance was the major factor. “Let me just state the fact I was bringing more of the money. Today I’m taking care of my son like nobody exists around me. It’s not easy and it’s not funny. I for go for money,” she stated.

    While recalling her pregnancy period, Jegede said, “I get belle, e know say I get belle, I will go my friend house for Ikoyi go stay,” she recounted, while noting the difficulties she endured.

    In 2019, the mother of one confirmed the end of her marriage to her colleague, Olakunle ‘Abounce’ Fawole, barely a year after their wedding.

    Jegede gained prominence for her role in the film ‘Missing Angel’ which was released in 2004.

    She has since been featured in other Nollywood movies including ‘Blackberry Babes’, ‘Okafor’s Law’,  and ‘Gangs of Lagos’.

  • My son is now asking to know his father – Actress Yvonne Jegede cries out

    My son is now asking to know his father – Actress Yvonne Jegede cries out

    Actress Yvonne Jegede has disclosed that the child she is having with Nollywood actor, Olakunle Fawole, popularly known as Abounce, is now asking to know his father.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Jegede disclosed this while accusing Fawole, her ex-husband, of not visiting or supporting their son, Xavier.

    Recalls that Jegede and Fawole got married back in 2017. However, Jegede shocked many when she revealed that she quit her marriage three months after she was pregnant with Xavier.

    In a chat with fellow Nollywood actress, Mercy Johnson, Jegede spoke on her failed marriage, saying: “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”.

    When Mercy asked if the estranged couple still communicate with each other, Yvonne said: “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.

    “Even the first time wey he come house, when he finally publicly accept say na him pikin I born, I give am ultimatum say if he no come, once my pikin reach five years, I go remove his surname comot for him name because I get to put Jegede Fawole for there because I know as I take suffer go America go born the pikin”.

    Jegede also revealed that her ex-husband does not celebrate their son on his birthdays and has never called to ask about his wellbeing.

    “He doesn’t wish him happy birthday on his birthdays. He doesn’t call him to ask after his wellbeing, he just doesn’t care that he has a son somewhere.

    “Your gift is in my hand, yet you don’t care. You see, one moment I dreaded the most is for my child to wake up one day and ask where is my father and it has started happening.

    “One day when he asked, I had to send messages to his siblings to ask him to come and check up on him, but it yielded no result.

    “It was so bad that my father had to represent my son at school for a father’s day event they recently had. It was embarrassing for me but I’m waiting to see when he will show up or if he wouldn’t till the boy turns 18.”

    Meanwhile, Fawole had earlier stated why he does not react to the backlashes and criticisms Jegede throw at him. However, nothing is heard of Fawole on Jegede’s recent disclosure.

  • Why I chose to ignore my ex-wife’s allegations – Olakunle ‘Abounce’ Fawole

    Why I chose to ignore my ex-wife’s allegations – Olakunle ‘Abounce’ Fawole

    Nollywood actor, Olakunle Fawole, popularly known as Abounce has stated why he refused to react over the backlashes and criticisms, his ex-wife, actress Yvonne Jegede throw at him.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that Olakunle got married to Yvonne back in 2017.

    However, Jegede shocked many when she revealed that she quit her marriage three months after she was pregnant with her son.

    She said: “We started having issues before the birth of Xavier. I think I was about two to three months pregnant when the issues came. Immediately the issues came, there was never a dull moment, it just kept going up and up and it got worse and it got bad and today here we are.

    “Right now, we are not living together, and we are not living as husband and wife, we are not husband and wife anymore and I would say a mutual agreement to go our separate ways. It didn’t work out, it wasn’t working out.”

    Despite the allegations, Jegede levelled against Fawole, the actor kept mum on the issue of their separation.

    Sharing why he kept mum over Jegede’s allegations, Fawole said: ”I think I am just a calm person, that’s it, that’s why I choose to ignore them. I feel it is not worth it, there is no need. Well, I can say I am single for now,” he told independent.ng.

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