- Actress Jumoke George has in a podcast interview with her colleague, Biola Bayo spoken on her personal experience from when she was younger till adulthood set in.
- She didn’t beat around the bush and opened up on her parents abandoning her and her failed marriage.
Nigerian actress Jumoke George did not mince words about her harsh childhood experiences, hot-headed father who disowned her, diabolical step-mum who sent her to the herbalist, her biological mum who rejected her and a husband who beat her to stupor on a regular basis.
In an interview with Biola Bayo on the Talk to B show, Jumoke George recounted how her fetish stepmother maltreated and sent her to herbalists to get charms used to control her father. She said she was being treated like a slave and made to do despicable things like preparing food the charm would be added to. In her words:
“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”.
The actress revealed how her plan to stop the fetish step-mum became the genesis of her doom because when she finally opened up to her father about it, he refused to believe and sent her packing. Jumoke George explained:
“When I pleaded with him to allow me to talk, he said, ‘From henceforth, I disowned you,’ and he went into his room, and the next thing I saw is 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”.
The dark-skinned actress revealed that her decision to stay with her father over her mother led to her fallout with her mother, who refused to take her in when she became homeless. However, they have been able to resolve their differences a few years ago. She continued:
“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.
I was sleeping around; I even slept on the table they used for selling goods by the roadside. If I see abandoned vehicle, I will sleep inside. Then, I used a safety pin to hold my bras. I used twine ropes to hold my pants”.
Sharing what led to her failed marriage, the veteran actress recounted how her ex-husband maltreated her by being physically abusive, especially when she got pregnant. Jumoke George added:
“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 the upstairs”.
Watch the actress speak below:
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Jumoke isn’t the only celebrity who has been abandoned by their parent. Last year, actor Charles Inojie revealed that his mother abandoned him when he was a-year-old after she parted ways with his father, which left his grandmother no choice but to raise him.
To worsen things, his father remarried and prioritized his step-mum over him, leading to maltreatment.
Similarly, Bimbo Ademoye disclosed in an interview,
how her mother abandoned her when she was two. She stated that she has, however, tried building a relationship with her years after.
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