The former Soundcity presenter, actress and model
Juliet Ojukwu has finally opened up on her failed marriage with her US based
husband after been mum for a long time now. She met her US based husband Chima
Ojukwu in September 2011 and within a week, they were engaged. Less than three
weeks after they met, Juliet and Chima had their introduction on the 29th of
September 2011, which was followed by a traditional wedding on October 4th. The
white wedding was scheduled to take place in January in the US but it never
held. A few months later, Juliet changed her FB status from married to single. Read
what she said:
"We parted ways over irreconcilable
differences. We were incompatible. At a point, being in the marriage became
life threatening. If I was still in it, my enemy may have been dead by now, all
in the name of trying to make it work and to avoid what people will say. I had
to cancel the wedding in America because here in Nigeria where my family and
his family are, there were verbal and domestic abuse. Going to a foreign land
where I knew no one would have been worse. So, there was no need for the
American wedding since it was already failing in Nigeria."
Chima's friends alleged that Juliet cancelled the
wedding not because she was abused in the short-lived marriage but because she
found out Chima wasn't as rich as he claimed. Juliet says the allegation is
completely false.
I didn't marry him for money and I don't know where
people got that perception from. Maybe because I am an attractive lady, people
assume I will only date for money but that's not true. What matters to me is
love. If I was going to get married because of money, I would have been married
to other men far richer than Chima long ago. But I turned down a lot of offers
because I wanted to love and be loved. I am comfortable with the money I make
from my job, so money wasn't the deciding factor in that marriage.
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