Actress Uche Ogbodo Confirms 'Marriage' Break Up

According to Nigeria's Queen of Gossips, (in a positive way, that is), Stella Dimoko-Korsus, the purported 'marriage' of Nollywood actress, Uche Ogbodo, has crashed like a pack of badly arranged cards.

There was news all over that Uche Ogbodo had, on Saturday, October 5, 2013, done her quiet traditional marriage to a Norway based ex-Nigerian footballer, Ato.

But shortly after the marriage, came a mirage of dirty secrets being bandied about the two of them bordering on infidelity and other forms of unfaithfulness.

Stella called up Uche who is heavily pregnant and is presently in America to deliver her baby, and they spoke. Uche allegedly accepted that the 'marriage' has broken down irretrievably.

Here is the interview as recorded by Stella:

Hello Uche, I have a few quick questions for you. I heard your barely a year old marriage has crashed. Is this true?

Well, that may be true but what isn't true is that it wasn't really marriage yet because it wasn't fully formalised; we were still in the process of formalising it when all hell broke loose. So I was merely engaged to be married to Ato Ubby.

It was just an introduction? Why didn’t you clear that impression all this while?

I just felt there was no need to do so because the wedding plans was to follow shortly. Unfortunately, it didn’t because things didn’t work out the way it should. I walked into a no-win situation.

What happened?

This is really a hard question to answer, but all I can say is that barely one month into the engagement and in the process of planning a formal wedding, I realised I had made the greatest mistake of my life. The foundation of the union was based on lies and deceit... shocking lies. We had been dating for a almost year and I thought I knew it all but nothing prepared me for what unfolded.

Is he married already?

No, he isn't married to anyone else

You got pregnant in the process?

On the verge of trying to salvage the situation, I found out I was expecting a child. I kept quiet to the rumours making the rounds because I was left with the option of thinking for my child and trying to salvage a dead situation but now, I have finally made up my mind to break off the engagement and my reasons are irreconcilable.

Uche, so you are saying you never got married and the engagement is off?

I just want to be left alone to take care of my child. Stella, I wasn't married; I was engaged to be married but as things stand now, the engagement is officially broken due to irreconcilable differences and since I am having my baby soon, my doctors has advised me to rest as my health and that of my baby is the most important thing right now.

So you are the one walking away and not him? You want to go into details?

Yes, I am the one walking out on the pack of lies. I am not going to pretend because I want to be married. I am not desperate and I would rather swallow my pride and accept I made a big mistake than forge ahead in lies. I am sorry I cannot go into details because I do not want to trade words or run my ex down because he is the father of the child I am carrying.

I am sorry if keeping quiet misled people into my status was already married. The excitement of looking forward to birthing my child kinda numbs the shock and disappointment but I will be fine.

So, after the introduction, the planned marriage was dead on arrival?

Exactly, and all this while, we have been trying to settle the issues, that's probably how you got hear of it.

Here's wishing you all the best Uche. We look forward to hearing the good news. God bless you.

Thank you, Stella, for calling to confirm. Thanks to everyone who has been understanding on this. For now, let me channel all my energy into positivity for my baby.

Hmmmmmmm!