“My Mother Abandoned Me As A Baby, My Father Chose His New Wife Over Me” – Charles Inojie [Video]

Nollywood actor, Charles Inojie has opened up about his difficult childhood and how his parents divorced affected him at an early stage.

During a recent interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, the actor revealed that his parents divorced when he was just 8 months old and his mother abandoned him, leaving his grandmother to breastfeed him.

Accoring to him, things got worse when his father remarried and prioritized his new wife who asked him Inojie’s father to choose between her and him.

Charles Inojie said that his father chose his stepmother and she made life miserable for him, forcing him to leave his father’s house after just 8 months.

The actor said that when he gained admission into the university at the age of 20, his stepmother influenced his father not to cater for him, telling him to wait until her own child was old enough to attend university with him.

He said, “When I wanted to go to the University, I became back to the house to tell him I have gotten admission. The woman began to laugh, faced my Dad and told him ‘If this one has to go the University, he will wait for my own child to grow so they will go together’, that is a child I an older than with 18 to 20 years”

The actor said years later when he went to meet his father for blessings as he was about to start working, his father didn’t want to see him because he was ashamed he had abandoned him all these years.

He said, ‘’I met him and we sat for close to thirty minutes, nobody talked. I was crying, he was crying. I said ‘I have to start going but that I am now out of school.

“My first work, they said Papa must pray for his child’. I bought a drink and put N5000 in an envelop and asked that he prays for me and he said he wasn’t going to touch it and that his conscience will not let him having not contributed a dime.”

Inojie said he eventually met his mother again years later, but their relationship was strained and he had no emotional attachment to her because he felt that she had abandoned him when he needed her most.

Despite his challenging upbringing, Chares Inojie has gone on to become a successful actor in the Nollywood film industry. He has starred in numerous films and television shows, and is known for his comedic roles.

Watch the video below:

I was not ready for how emotional this became.

Charles Inojie is one of Nollywood’s greats – as an actor, as a director, as a comic. He has made us laugh too many times to remember.

But where did all of that come from? A life of pain.

First his parents’ marriage crashed.… pic.twitter.com/lBUwX8bMyU

— Chude Jideonwo (@Chude) November 10, 2023

KanyiDaily recalls that Charles Inojie recently narrated how he narrowly escaped death when a huge storage water tank fell right where he was seated.