“How my mother abandoned me as a baby and my father chose his new wife over me” Actor Charles Inojie recounts bitter childhood experience (Video)

“How my mother abandoned me as a baby and my father chose his new wife over me” Actor Charles Inojie recounts bitter childhood experience (Video)

Charles Inojie has recounted his childhood struggles and how his parents divorced affected him at an early stage.

The movie icon in an interview with Chude Jideonwo revealed that his mother and father parted ways when he was just 8 months and his mother abandoned him, which left his grandmother no choice than to breast feed him.

To worsen things, his father remarried and prioritized his second wife above him. According to the actor, his second wife asked his father to choose between her and him and his father couldn’t leave the woman who was sexually satisfying him for his son.

The actor disclosed that his stepmother made life miserable for him and he only got to live with his father for 8 months before he left. He further revealed that when he gained admission to the University at 20years, his stepmother influenced his father not to cater for him as she told him to wait till her child grow up so they could attend university together.

Years later, the Nollywood icon met his mother but there was already a huge strained between them as he didn’t have any emotional attachment towards her.

“”When I wanted to go to the University, I became back to the house to tell him I have gotten admission. The woman began to laugh, faced my Dad and told him ‘If this one has to go the University, he will wait for my own child to grow so they will go together’, that is a child I an older than with 18 to 20 years”

I met him and we sat for close to thirty minutes, nobody talked. I was crying, he was crying. I said ‘I have to start going but that I am now out of school. My first work, they said Papa must pray for his child’. I bought a drink and put N5000 in an envelop and asked that he prays for me and he said he wasn’t going to touch it and that his conscience will not let him having not contributed a dime.”

I was not ready for how emotional this became.

Charles Inojie is one of Nollywood’s greats – as an actor, as a director, as a comic. He has made us laugh too many times to remember.

But where did all of that come from? A life of pain.

First his parents’ marriage crashed.… pic.twitter.com/lBUwX8bMyU

— Chude Jideonwo (@Chude) November 10, 2023