The Nigerian actress, Osas Ighodaro, has shared her experience of being cheated on by an ex-lover while she was living in America.
In an interview on the Lone Wolf podcast, the film star described the ordeal as “devastating,” explaining that she had imagined spending her life with her then-boyfriend.
She recounted driving to Baltimore to surprise him, only to find another woman, who was pregnant, in his room. Confronting him led to security escorting her out of the building.
“After getting a new car, I drove all the way to Baltimore to surprise my then-boyfriend. I stood at his door for about five minutes waiting for him to answer. Five minutes might not seem long, but in that moment, it felt like forever. He finally opened the door, and I said, ‘What took you so long? Surprise! Aren’t you happy to see me?’” she said.
“His response was, ‘Why didn’t you say you were coming?’ I thought he’d be happy that I drove all the way to see him, especially since I had just bought this car. I tried to go to his room, but the door was locked. I asked why, and he said he had a friend there. I told him to come out, and he said it was a girl, not a guy.
“I asked why he had a girl in his room, and he told me to sit down.”
The actress revealed that the situation escalated when security personnel were called to remove her from the premises.
“I started shouting. At that point, he called the complex security to escort me out, telling me he didn’t want me to get in trouble for fighting a pregnant woman,” she said.
“My whole world collapsed. I’ve always been a lover, someone who puts my all into relationships. This was devastating for me.
“It was young love, someone I thought I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, but clearly, he, or maybe God, had other plans.”
Ighodaro now regards the heartbreak as a blessing, realising that moving to Baltimore would not have aligned with her bigger ambitions.
“I finally see it as a blessing because we were already having conversations and moving to Baltimore to live our lives,” she added.
“I always knew that wasn’t going to be enough for me. My dreams are global and big, and moving to Baltimore wouldn’t help me achieve them. I needed to be in New York, around creatives, for this to happen.
“Eventually, I saw it as a blessing. You were about to go into a normal life, but the creative life isn’t normal. I knew that wasn’t what I wanted, so even though it was devastating at the time, it was ultimately a blessing.”
Ighodaro married Nigerian actor Gbenro Ajibade in 2015 after meeting on the set of Tinsel. The couple divorced in 2019 and share one daughter, Azariah.