Ace actor, Emeka Ike has revealed how his ex-wife, Suzanne Emma, made him lose all his properties and turned him into a pauper.
Ike bared it all as a guest on Channels Television programme, Rubbin’ Minds hosted by Hero Daniels.
The actor’s marriage to the lady, which produced four children, crashed in 2017 after a Lagos Island Customary Court ruled that the couple should go their separate ways.
He said the assault allegations from his wife made him lose all his properties, including St. Nicholas College, Magodo, worth N480 million.
Asked why he did not come out to clear the air on social media, the actor said, “It is difficult to clarify because the same people that are bullying you on the internet are still there.
“Whatever you say, they’ll say, ‘no, he’s still missing her. Move on.’ and make you feel like, what’s going on?
“And if you’re not prepared to handle it, you’ll be crushed.
“My secondary school, St. Nicholas College, on CMD road, Magodo, was shut down. Over N480 million investment that year was shut down. And all I heard was constant battery. I was like, ‘I don’t beat this lady. What’s going on? Babe, what’s going on? They said I beat you, do I?’
“And she [my ex-wife] said, ‘No. But you’re a star, you know, they can always manipulate things and all that.’ So, I was gullible until I discovered that she was actually the one behind all this whole thing. Some ladies are too desperate for marriage legally. And she actually told me one time that I am not the marriage type. And I didn’t understand it. So, the young men need to know that there are plenty ladies that are not the marriage type lately.
“The good ones don’t show the things you want to see to want to go to a party with a girl. But these ladies show you everything you want to see and when you get into it, there’s a lock.”
He said he was shooting a movie in America when his ex-wife went to his school and shut it down, advising parents to register their children somewhere else.
Ike added that his wife also disposed off all his properties while he was still in America, and he returned to find that all his properties were gone.
“I came back home to nothing. My properties, everything in the house, had been moved. My house is in Ogudu GRA, but I was staying close to St. Nicholas College in Magodo, so that if a student needed attention, I could be able to wake up 2am, 3am to respond and do what I had to do.
“So, they had moved all the properties I had in Lagos, like 80 percent of my lands. It was just the bag that I travelled ti America with that I had with me.”
He added, “People were building on my property and I was looking it at and I felt like killing myself, because you can’t defend what you don’t have evidence to.”
Asked if evidence was taken from his home, the actor said, “There’s no evidence because you came back and they’d moved your load out of the house, and you can’t see any piece. Nothing. Your wristwatches, awards, pictures with presidents. Everything I had as Emeka Ike was gone. It was just that box I went to America with (that was left).”
Ike said all entreaties from himself and his friends and family members for his ex-wife not to divorce him fell on deaf ears.
He highlighted all the things he did for his ex-wife, including sponsoring her higher education, but he found out too late that he was not “loved in return”.
“She went to divorce herself. She said, ‘Judge, please, divorce me, I want to go.’ I said, ‘Kilode? Where are you going?’ I was on my knees. Felix Duke was on his knees. My sisters were on their knees in court. Even the people that came with my ex-wife to court were on their knees. They said, ‘Are you okay? What’s wrong with you?’ We didn’t understand what was going on in her psychology,” the actor said.
Watch video:
Actor – Emeka Ike narrates How his ex-wife made him lose his properties and access to his kids after she accused him of a*saulting her.
And even closed his school and and asked all the kids to go home
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