Angela Okorie Reveals Why Her Marriage Crashed

Nollywood actress, Angela Okorie has disclosed why her marriage to the man she loved crashed.

Angela Okorie revealed that even though her ex-husband, Chukwuma Orizu did have a problem with her career, his family didn't approve and wanted to leave acting.

Angela Okorie spoke in a recent podcast interview hosted by her Iyabo Ojo made it known that her husband's family destroyed her marriage.

However since the man's family didn't understand her vision and what she wanted, Angela said she couldn't allow them to kill her dream.

She said, “I won’t advise anybody to be in a marriage when you’re not in love with the man. I think that’s the reason a lot of women cheat. In this Lekki, you have too many women who cheat in their marriages.

“For me, I fell out of love. The man [my ex-husband] was a good man. I fell out of love because of what his family was doing. The family didn’t want me to continue acting. They didn’t want me to do anything acting. They were like, ‘If we are going to marry you, you’ll stop doing entertainment.’ And I will be like, ‘Even my mum can’t even stop me. That is my life. Do you know how many years it took me?

“He [my ex-husband] was in support of me. He doesn’t even stress me but because of the whole saga, it was like I was in a place where the people didn’t even understand my vision. They don’t understand what I’m chasing. You need to chase it with me. This is what your wife wants. You can’t kill my dream. This is what I’ve worked for so many years to get here. So, you can’t just wake up and say, “Because you want to marry me, give up on my dreams.”

The actress also revealed how she greatly suffered from severe post traumatic stress disorder for three years after she escaped an assassination by gun men.

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“I went through hell. We were actually coming from a show when we were attacked by gunmen. It was very traumatising. For three good years, it was hard for me to have a relationship or do anything.”

“I had PTSD. And then I developed insomnia, shock disorder, and all that. I had to always move around with security. It’s so embarrassing because there are some places you want to go to that you don’t need security but because I was traumatised, I don’t know who was about to shoot me again. So I had to.

“It was an assassination attack sponsored by someone in the movie industry. It’s from the industry because we were coming from a show.”