Two years ago, Cool fm OAP, Ifedayo Olarinde popularly known as Daddy Freeze said on social media that his marriage to his wife, Opeyemi Olarinde was a big mistake. Opeyemi Olarinde has not really talked about their marriage since they parted ways, has now decided to share her own side of the story.
In an interview with Bellanaija, Opeyemi said she decided to speak up because she didn’t want a stranger telling her own story.
On their divorce
I am still in court with him. Our divorce is not final, we’ve not even had a trial. The issue now is the last time we went to court, the judge wanted to speak to our children (as they) were also involved in the abuse. My son has a kneecap that was broken when he tried to cover me when his father was beating me. He is just learning how to walk properly again and started playing football in January.
A lot has happened and I’ve kept quiet because I don’t know how to handle this. I kind of saw all this coming though because when I was leaving, he threatened me that if I left, he will destroy me on social media because he has the power to do so as I am nothing and he is everything and there was no way I was going to survive without him.
Why she has decided to speak up now
He is the only man I’ve ever known for that long, so I didn’t exactly know how to handle what happened to me. There was no go-to book or counsellor; my not responding then was me broken, confused and lost. He used to beat me and put her on speaker phone and say “look, I’m beating her and she has refused to leave” then she would scream at me to get out of the house. But I didn’t have anywhere to go.
I had no exit strategy but at the end of the day, I had to leave because if I had died that is how the story would have ended.
Right now reading all that stuff I read yesterday (Wednesday), I have no idea who the person is behind the Twitter account, but I am not a coward and if someone has come out with 100% truth of what happened, then I will speak up.
A stranger can’t be fighting for me and I’m quiet, so I decided to come out and say yes it is true. He was given a court order to stop humiliating me on social media but he hasn’t stopped.
I asked them (my kids) for their permission before I did this interview and my daughter goes “mummy you’ve been quiet, and it’s almost like you are afraid of him.” My son said “mummy you’re afraid of daddy even though we’ve left.” I had to let them know I’m not afraid of him and that’s why I’ve decided to speak up.
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