But recently, she has slowed down and all we hear is about her works (which is good by all standards). But in this interview culled from Vanguard Newspaper, Mercy opened up about her first marriage, the controversy surrounding her current marriage, and a BOMBSHELL!!!
Read the excerpts below…
INTERVIEWER:So how do you cope being the second wife? Don’t you and the first wife have clashes?
MERCY's Reply: Laughs. This question is very funny and I’m going to deal with this now. What happened is that when I met him, he was already separated from his first wife. Although, they were still married, but no longer together. She lives abroad with the children. So, they were already separated when we started dating.
INTERVIEWER: They weren’t divorced?
MERCY'S REPLY: They weren’t divorced as at the time when I met him but now, they’ve finalized their divorce and I’m the only wife. They were separated for like five years before I came into the picture and their divorce case was in court. They were divorced before we got married. A lot of people don’t know the real gist- now I’m not the second wife but the only wife.
INTERVIEWER: So now you’re happy? MERCY's Reply: Yes because even when I started dating him, I just allowed people to say whatever they wanted to say. They were still in court then, I didn’t want to say anything and just kept quiet and the town went agog. They finalized their divorce before our wedding and even before I had my son.
INTERVIEWER: You’re a very beautiful woman, how do you cope with male advances?
MERCY's Reply: get a lot of that because people tell me I don’t look my age. I get a lot of male advances and it makes me feel good because I get reassured of my beauty even after two kids. So I tease my husband about it. A times I even let him know whenever someone makes passes at me so he can know I’m still hot. But jokes apart, I’m a married woman and I don’t want anything that will stain my name. I love my home and I pray to remain married for the rest of my life. I always know how to draw the line.
INTERVIEWER: So how does he handle it whenever you get advances from men?
MERCY's Reply: He just squeezes his face and asks me if I don’t know that I’m old and I just tease him back that it’s only to him that I’m old, the other guys don’t know that and we just laugh it off. But I think he likes the fact that men make passes at me- I think you should ask him that. But to me, we just joke about it.
INTERVIWER: Does your ex-husband still bother you?
MERCY's Reply: No, he doesn’t
INTERVIEWER: Did he let you be just like that?
MERCY's Reply: Of course.
INTERVIEWER: Has he moved on like you?
MERCY's Reply: I don’t know anything about him.
INTERVIEWER: Both of you don’t care?
MERCY's Reply: Why would I care? I’m married now and I care only about my husband and my kids.
INTERVIEWER: Are you not bothered about the negative gist in town concerning it?
MERCY's Reply: I don’t have any business with him again. That’s my past. My husband and my children are my present and future.
INTERVIEWER: So what were those mistakes you made in your last marriage that you wouldn’t want to repeat in this one?
MERCY's Reply: It’s not like I’m trying to sound holy but, I didn’t make any mistake. I just feel it was meant to be like that. I had a mother-in-law who didn’t like where I come from. She didn’t like the fact that her son didn’t marry a lady from their village. She made me go through hell. At a point when I couldn’t take it anymore, I left the marriage.
INTERVIEWER: So you wouldn’t blame those ladies who wish their mother-in-laws were dead before they got married?
MERCY's Reply: I swear I wouldn’t blame them. If I think back to what I went through, I wouldn’t pray for anyone to go through such because I went through hell in the hands of that woman. And for me to have woken up one day and decided to leave, it wasn’t easy because I was young and tried my best to please her. But she wasn’t pleased. I went out of my way to learn their language, learn how to cook different dishes just to please her but she didn’t budge.
INTERVIEWER: So what did your ex-husband do about it?
MERCY'S REPLY: At first, he actually fought it but some women have a strong hold on their sons. In the end, he obeyed her. He didn’t like it that I was leaving but he couldn’t hold me back at the same time because he wanted to please his mum. We had fought the battle for a long time and it wasn’t as if it would come to an end, I had to leave.
Hope she’ll have the same opinion about mother-in-laws when she becomes one.
END of INTERVIEW:
MY OWN QUESTIONS:
1. Ladies can you be a second wife?
2. What will you do if your mother-in-law hates you?
3. Will you leave the marriage the way MERCY AIGBE did or stay?
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