By Nicholas Ojo
Nollywood actress and reality TV star, Bisola Aiyeola on Sunday, said her mum was greatly disappointed after her premarital pregnancy at 23.
She said this during an interview with media personality, Toke Makinwa, on her Talk with Toke Makinwa show in April when she revealed that she went into the Big Brother House finding out she was pregnant.
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According to Aiyeola, she felt so sad because her baby daddy dumped her and said he was done after she got pregnant.
Bisola who appeared in the 2017 edition of BBNaija where she was the first runner-up, made this known in an interview with Chude Jideonwo, the media entrepreneur, while speaking on her journey to motherhood.
One of the contestants of Project Fame West Africa in 2008 where she came 5th, Aiyeola revealed that getting pregnant straight out of project fame and her mother’s disappointment about it broke her.
Aiyeola also shared her experience of being raised by her mother alone while her father was absent in her life.
She said; “When I told her I was having a baby after project fame, my mum wailed, like ‘who’s this boy that has stolen my jewel?’ I had never seen my mum that sad before.
“She was like, ‘this (project fame) was what I thought was going to be the pivot that would escalate us to success and happiness and now you’re having a baby.’ It broke me.
“That was the only time I’d seen my mum not really been supportive. I had my daughter when I was 23. After she got over it and spoke to my sister, now she’s happy and would randomly tell me, ‘thank you. I’m proud of you.’
“My mum had two stores in Lagos Island. We were living [large] and people would call us London children. My mum traveled a lot. But life hit her. Her store got burned. She never got back on her feet,” Aiyeola said.
“We hit rock bottom after which we started living from one family member’s house to another.
“I don’t have too many memories of my dad because he wasn’t really present in our lives. He left when I was 3 and I saw him only once after that. I think I was 13 at the time when he came to visit.
“Years before he passed, I called. I thought talking to him would spark something and make him want to reach out to me more. But it dawned on me there was nothing here. ‘Don’t push it. He wasn’t there for you growing up.’
“After that, I had an interview where I shared what I was sad about, and I felt that he wasn’t there for me. I got messages from my older siblings who told me they all went through it and it wasn’t peculiar to just me or my sister,” she added.