Pete Edochie
Nollywood legend, Pete Edochie, has broken his silence on his son’s marriage brouhaha saying Yul Edochie didn’t inform him about picking a second wife.
In an interview with Chude Jideonwo, he disclosed that he only heard Yul picked another wife.
According to him, he does not interfere in the affairs of any of his five sons because they are adults, but he didn’t know Yul and his first wife were having issues.
“First of all, Yul is 41 and I really don’t interfere in his affairs, no. Suddenly we heard he’s picked up a second wife. I have five sons, I don’t interfere with their lives you know. If they say ‘Daddy, so and so the thing is happening’, good, if they don’t tell me, I don’t bother. If they tell me, beautiful. We just heard it and that’s it,” he said.
“Mary is not just a daughter-in-law. I don’t want to say that I love Mary more than the other wives of my sons but the love I have for Mary is so strong. Mary is a girl I love to the marrow. By the way, she is a wonderful person. Mary is a very very brilliant girl. You may not know that. Mary is a computer wizard, that lady you’re looking at, right, and to a very large extent, the success of that home is to Mary’s credit, yeah.”
He expressed his firm belief that her decision to leave Yul was a result of bad counseling and advice from people around her; adding that they do not have ‘happy homes’.
On the subject of marriage, the actor also expressed his disappointment that the marriages of his on-screen daughters Ireti Doyle, Chioma Chukwuka, and Tonto Dikeh had fallen apart.