Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo is opening up about the little white lies she told her children about their father in a bid to maintain a 'balanced life' for her kids.
Speaking about why she made this decision to tell these little white lies to her children, and opening up about a number of them she told, Iyabo Ojo comes clean in an interview with AntoSays. Here's what Iyabo Ojo had to say.
Speaking about the little white lies she told her children about their father, Iyabo Ojo opened up saying:
IYABO OJO: There's something they call white lie. My story is crazy, when I say crazy I mean I need to write a book about my life cuz sometimes when I sit down and I look at the mirror and I look at myself I'm like oh girl, how did you pull through?
I didn't come from a balanced family. When I say balanced, I don't mean financially. My family financially were very okay, but my upbringing wasn't balanced because of the things that were going on with my dad and my mom and my family. So I did not come from a balanced family and one thing I craved and wanted was my kids to have a balanced home.
So when that didn't happen, the first thing I did was to block my kids off everything that was going on. My kids didn't have access to social media or phone or anything until they were like probably 15 or 14.
That was when I allowed them to start even knowing what they call social media or whatever it is. They didn't have access to reading newspapers or anything because I told a lot of white lies and that was the fact that your dad is a traveler, he travels a lot.
So they didn't realize that we were separated for a very long time and I made sure that no matter how angry I was with their dad, I allowed him access to his kids when he came home to visit. I bought Christmas gifts, New Year gifts.
I always had to double the gifts I will buy: one from him, one for me and make sure his own is bigger.
