Actress Regina Chukwu has said her late husband’s family snatched her child from her after he passed away and forced her to live apart from her daughter for close to three years.
The actress made the revelation in a lengthy post on her Instagram account.
She said her first child who is now 17-year-old was just three-year-old when her husband died, adding that after her husband’s death, she was totally lost in the world and was told by her husband’s family that she can’t go back to the city with her two children based on tradition unless she accepted some conditions.
According to her, she quickly accepted the conditions but at the end of the day, she still wasn’t allowed to take the two children instead they gave her the younger child, Richard, who was still breastfeeding as at then and kept the older one.
She wrote,
“Do you believe that this daughter of mine was once snatched away forcefully from me???? She was barely 3yrs old then. Do you believe that I was forced to live apart from my daughter for close to 3yrs??? Let me take you on a journey down memory lane ?. When death took away their father and I was totally lost in this world, then came family and traditions (story for another day) they told me that I can’t go back to the city with my 2 children unless I accepted some conditions, which I was quick to accept, even at that, they told me I could only go with Richard cos I was still breastfeeding him then, I thought it was a joke but that very morning my late husband’s sister who lived in Enugu city then said she was going back to base with her and she was going to register her for school there ( I was still mourning my husband then) I cried, I begged, couldn’t watch them take her away, so I ran after the car, fell, stood up and ran as fast as my legs could carry me, ran after the moving car but I couldn’t catch up ???(emotions) the story of how I got my baby back and more I intend to tell as a movie someday ? the great news is that, this is that babygirl standing next to me almost taller than me lol and she now drags my cloth with me? pls celebrate my first fruit with me??????? she is SEVENTEEN ??”
