“My Mother Abandoned Me As A Baby; I Had No Tears To Shed When I Met Her Years Later” – Charles Inojie

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Nollywood actor and comedian, Charles Inojie, has spoken about the challenges he faced growing up, particularly the impact of his parents’ divorce in his early years.

In an interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, the actor revealed that his mother left him when he was just eight months old and his grandmother had to take care of him by nursing him.

After his father remarried, the new wife took over and the father made the decision to stay with her, prioritizing the marriage over his well-being.

Charles Inojie said he only lived with his father for eight months before they separated due to his stepmother’s difficulties.

He further revealed that his stepmother convinced his father not to fund his college education until her own child was ready to go to college, even though he had gained admission at the age of 20.

When he met his mother again years later, their relationship remained emotionally distant due to the ongoing emotional stress.

“When I wanted to go to the University, I came back to the house to tell him I had 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 am older than with 18 to 20 years,” he narrated.

Speaking on a reunion with his dad, he said, “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 I am now out of school. In my first work, they said Papa must pray for his child’. I bought a drink and put N5000 in an envelope and asked that he pray 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,” he said in part.

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