Nollywood actress Yvonne Jegede has confessed that she left her marriage because she was making more money than her ex-husband, Olakunle ‘Abounce’ Fawole.
In February 2018, Abounce, the late actress Bukky Ajayi’s son, wed Yvonne in a modest but elegant ceremony in Lagos.
On the production of Tade Ogidan’s well-known drama series “Behind the Siege,” the couple first became together in 2004.
Regretfully, Yvonne disclosed in March 2019 that their one-year marriage had failed three months after the couple’s kid was born.
In a preview for the next episode of “The Honest Bunch” podcast, the actress from “Okafor Law” expressed her remorse for deciding on love over money.
She stated that her ex-husband taking every joke as disrespect because he was older than her was also part of the reason for their divorce.
She said:
“He [my ex-husband] is eight years older than me. But the moment we got married, if I tell am say, ‘You dey crease, ‘ he would say I’m disrespecting him. I would if it was the same person I got married to.
“But that wasn’t the main reason I left the marriage. Let me just say the fact, I was bringing more of the money. I’m taking care of my son like nobody exist around me. It’s not easy. I would have gone for money instead of love.”
“When it was time to put his name, I said that as long as I carried all the burden, emotionally, financially and otherwise, I would put my surname with his surname.“So I put a compound name, Jegede-Fawole. I told him I would remove Fawole if he didn’t accept that he was his child. When he came and took a picture with the baby, the bloggers finally left me alone because he had accepted that it was his child,” she added.Since that day, she said, Abounce has never returned to their house.“He has never called. His son turned one; no call, no text message to say happy birthday. I’m not even asking him to contact me. We no dey the same path again, but your gift dey my hand.“I even dropped a message for his family members because I dreaded this moment when my child would wake up one day and say where my daddy is. And we got to that stage. I was shaken,” she added.
