Emeka Ike, the Nigerian actor, has recounted how Suzanne Emma, his ex-wife, allegedly made him lose his properties worth millions and access to his kids.
In 2017, a Lagos Island customary court dissolved the marriage between Ike and Emma over incessant battery.
The marriage produced four children.
In a recent interview with Channels TV, Ike claimed that his ex-wife orchestrated false accusations of assault, leading to the dissolution of their marriage and the closure of his N480 million investment, a school.
He said he faced property losses that took a severe toll on him, to the point where he contemplated suicide.
“My secondary school, St. Nicholas College, on CMD road, Magodo, was shut down. Over N480 million in investment that year was shut down. And all I heard was constant battery,” he said.
“I was always saying look I do not beat this lady, what is going on? I went on air, I said I never did. Babe, they say I beat you, do I? No, but you are a star, they can always manipulate things. So I was gullible until I discovered she was actually the one behind the whole thing.
“It was depressing to find out that the person you are actually confiding in knows that men were coming into your house and was making calls with them and arranging and discussing this thing and the resolution was after it all, blackmail him. I was busy grouping with the blackmail, I did not know it was much more than that.
“So it was crazy. My school was shut down. Students were told to go home. This school is shut down, this marriage is shut down on the same day I was on air heading for a movie shoot in America.
“I came back home to nothing! My house and my properties had been moved. I lost plenty of them, like 80% of my land. People are building on my property and I am looking at it and I feel like killing myself. Everything I got as Emeka Ike was gone. It was just that box I went to America with.”
Ike said he decided to leave stardom behind to focus on his children because he noticed some lapses in his family.
The actor also disclosed that he has not seen his kids for the past two years because his ex-wife has intentionally kept them away from him.
“I shut down my stardom, I have to focus on my family. I noticed a lot of lapses. I said forget the stardom now, the kids. I was able to bring them out of depression and build them but right now she is in their possession. I do not know where they are, I cannot see my kids for two years, they are hiding from me.”
In 2017, the actor got married to Yolanda. The couple welcomed their first child together, a baby girl, in October 2019.
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