Who
Wants To Be A Millionaire’ host Frank Edoho is still legally married to
estranged wife, Katherine, who told NET last week that the pair should
never have become husband and wife. Katherine Obiang, who has three kids
for the TV host spoke to our correspondent in a compelling interview
how the 7-year old marriage should never have been and how the couple
should have rather stayed friends. Excerpts:
Let us into your background.
I’m
Cameroonian. My dad is from Cameroun, my mom is from the Efik tribe in
Nigeria, but somehow, we have been living there and here. My mom was a
Head of Department in a tertiary institution, it was natural that we
lived in Nigeria. I have no sister but brothers as siblings and even my
aunt had only boys as kids, so I grew up among boys. I had different
influences. We travelled a lot and to an extent, the experience helped
shape who I am and how I see things. It was generally an OK childhood.
How did you start your journey in Nigerian media?
It
was during my one-year internship. I was working with the account
section of a radio station and one day, the programme manager called me
and asked me to read something for him, after which he asked if I had
thought of doing something on radio. I gasped but because I am always up
for a challenge, I said yes when he asked if I was interested. I used
to script everything I said so I can sound interesting and gradually, I
grew into it.
And how are your kids taking the whole divorce issue?
We
are not really divorced. It’s still a work-in-progress kind of thing
but we are taking it well. When its time for him to see the children, he
does and when its time to return them, he does. On my part, I have
carried the children along and make them understand they are not stained
because of it. I wouldn’t want them to develop a complex because of it.
We didn’t design for these things to happen but they do. Its like
people who have lost their parents, they didn’t plan for it but they
have to move on. I watch them and I think they are doing pretty okay
especially because we talk about it every time there is a reason to.
You mentioned that you aren’t really divorced. Does that suggest possibility of reconciliation?
No,
it doesn’t. We just started the process but there isn’t any hope for
reconciliation. We know we would always be in each other’s lives because
of the children, so we have to be civil. When the children are getting
married for example, we have to hide our differences and make it work. READ MORE: http://news.naij.com/45105.html
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