By Bukola Kayode
Veteran Nollywood actress, Eucharia Anunobi has opened up on how her Ex-Husband, Charles abandoned her and her late sickle-cell carrier son.
Anunobi who appeared on The Honest Bunch Podcast said it was her former husband who convinced her to get married to him despite knowing they both have the AS genotype.
According to actress who achieved stardom through her role in the Nollywood classic, ‘Glamour Girls’, Charles soon changed when their son was diagnosed with the Sickle cell condition.
She also revealed that Charles abandoned her and her late son when things got tough.
She said: “Before I got married to Charles, my ex husband, we discovered we were both AS. I wanted to end the relationship but he convinced me that he would be there for me.
“We got married and we had a boy. Just before he clocked one, he fell ill and the doctor said he was SS, that was when the battle of my life started.
“Charles turned against his own son. I was the one paying the rent and all the bills in the house but I still held on to the marriage. I had two maids. Whenever I went out and our son had a crisis, Charles would just abandon him”.
She added: “I spent millions on hospital bills, Charles never dropped N1. On November 26, 2006, I went to work and my son was 4 years old. Charles’ cousin, Nonye was living with us then and she called me that my husband had moved out of the house, he said he couldn’t deal with a child that was SS.
“For two years, I never removed his pictures and clothes. Since he left, he never called to check on his son. I did everything to save my son”.
Anunobi also detailed how hard she tried to save her son’s life.
She said: “I traveled to Ireland, I wanted to do bone marrow transplant for him but the doctor said he could become a vegetable and moreover he needed a sibling so I went back to Nigeria and started making research on how to take care of a child with sickle cell.
“I spent millions on him, he never went outside after 5pm, he never drank pure water. From 7 years to 14, he never had a crisis. When he was 14, I saw that his foot was swollen. I took him to the hospital and the doctor said he had a water retention and he needed surgery or they would give him some meds and injection for 21 days.
“I made sure he never missed his injection. After 21 days, the thing disappeared. When he was 16 years, I took him for his regular checkup and the doctor asked if he ever did a blo0d transfusion and I said yes, when he was 3. So the doctor advised he should get a blo0d transfusion”.
Still speaking on how her son died, she shared: “He instructed his student doctor to do the blood transfusion but he did blo0d extraction.
“He removed 3 pints of his blo0d. My son turned yellow and had jaundice. He was rushed to The ICU and he passed away on Aug 22, 2017”
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