HAUSA NEWS
YORUBA NEWS
IGBO NEWS

POPULAR THIS WEEK

No Content Available
FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS
SEND US NEWS
Saturday, June 14, 2025
  • CONTACT US
  • PRIVACY
  • REPORT A STORY
ENTERTAINMENT — WITHIN NIGERIA
  • Home
  • Features
  • Entertainment
    • Celebrities
    • Celebrities Biography
    • E-News
    • Music
    • Nollywood
    • Opinion
    • Reality TV Shows
      • Big Brother Naija
      • Gulder Ultimate Search
  • News Picks
  • MORE
    • Gist
    • Articles
    • Videos
No Result
View All Result
ENTERTAINMENT — WITHIN NIGERIA
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Features
  • Entertainment
  • News Picks
  • MORE

How I Reacted To My Father’s Death –Nollywood Thespian Omotola Jalade

Oluwamayowa Adeyinka by Oluwamayowa Adeyinka
April 2, 2021
in Celebrities
Reading Time: 3 mins read
A A
0
How I Reacted To My Father's Death –Nollywood Thespian Omotola Jalade

Omotola Jalade

Veteran Nollywood screen diva, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, has described how she felt when she learned her father had died.

The beautiful mother-of-four, in a new chat on the latest episode of #WithChude, said her father’s death made her numb and affected her strangely, like something died in her.

Omotola revealed she had a very close relationship with her father to the point that she couldn’t react when she got home to the news of his death. “I was numb and emotionless, and it has affected me to this day”, she said.

How I Reacted To My Father's Death –Nollywood Thespian Omotola Jalade
Omotola Jalade

Narrating the event, she said; “When I was about nine years old, I was shipped to Command Secondary School in Kaduna. By that time, they had just given birth to my younger brother. I was a child and I did not take it well at all.

“I even remember when he was leaving, and we both were crying. It really affected me – I thought the reason was because he now had other kids, and I was no longer important to him.

READ ALSO:

Dangote steps back, Ekpe steps in — But who really is this New Chairman?

Inside the lives of 20 Nigerian celebrity kids who are already stars

Why Tyler Perry’s hit movie ‘Straw’ would hit harder with a Yoruba or Igbo cultural spin

Wealth anchor: A deep dive into Mike Adenuga’s quiet role in Wizkid’s global climb

“I think everything I have been, positively or negatively, was solely because of my father’s death. It affected me so much; I did not even know how much at the time. I did not even mourn my dad.

How I Reacted To My Father's Death –Nollywood Thespian Omotola Jalade
Omotola Jalade

“When I was about nine years old, I was shipped to Command Secondary School in Kaduna. By that time, they had just given birth to my younger brother. I was a child, and I did not take it well at all.

“I even remember when he was leaving, and we both were crying. It really affected me – I thought the reason was because he now had other kids, and I was no longer important to him.

“I think everything I have been, positively or negatively, was solely because of my father’s death. It affected me so much; I did not even know how much at the time. I did not even mourn my dad.”

How I Reacted To My Father's Death –Nollywood Thespian Omotola Jalade

“At the age of 12, I was becoming a little lady, and I was excited to spend time with my father. That was when I got called out of school because I needed to be home. I knew someone had died because of how everyone in school was tiptoeing around me. The only thing I kept saying at the airport was, ‘I just hope it is not my dad.

“For some callous reason, I was okay with it being anyone but him. When I got home, I was greeted by a crowd. As I walked into the house, I was thinking about which of my family members had died. I saw my brothers, then I saw my mum, and, at that moment, I froze because I knew it was my dad that had died.

“I’m not sure if it was the guilt of wishing death on someone else, and not him, or because I was too young to process it or because I was still angry with him for shipping me off, but I was numb and emotionless, and it has affected me to this day. It was like something died in me.”

RelatedPosts

Dangote steps back, Ekpe steps in — But who really is this New Chairman?

Dangote steps back, Ekpe steps in — But who really is this New Chairman?

June 14, 2025
Inside the lives of 20 Nigerian celebrity kids who are already stars

Inside the lives of 20 Nigerian celebrity kids who are already stars

June 14, 2025

Discussion about this post

ADVERTISEMENT

LATEST

Dangote steps back, Ekpe steps in — But who really is this New Chairman?

Dangote steps back, Ekpe steps in — But who really is this New Chairman?

June 14, 2025
Inside the lives of 20 Nigerian celebrity kids who are already stars

Inside the lives of 20 Nigerian celebrity kids who are already stars

June 14, 2025
Why Tyler Perry’s hit movie ‘Straw’ would hit harder with a Yoruba or Igbo cultural spin

Why Tyler Perry’s hit movie ‘Straw’ would hit harder with a Yoruba or Igbo cultural spin

June 13, 2025
Nigerian reality TV shows that changed the game (and contestants)

Nigerian reality TV shows that changed the game (and contestants)

June 13, 2025
Wealth anchor: A deep dive into Mike Adenuga’s quiet role in Wizkid’s global climb

Wealth anchor: A deep dive into Mike Adenuga’s quiet role in Wizkid’s global climb

June 12, 2025
Before fame: 35 surprising jobs your favourite Nigerian celebs once did

Before fame: 35 surprising jobs your favourite Nigerian celebs once did

June 12, 2025
Load More
ENTERTAINMENT — WITHIN NIGERIA

WITHIN NIGERIA MEDIA LTD.

NEWS, MULTI MEDIA

WITHIN NIGERIA is an online news media that focuses on authoritative reports, investigations and major headlines that springs from National issues, Politics, Metro, Entertainment; and Articles.

Follow us on social media:

CORPORATE LINKS

  • About
  • Contacts
  • Report a story
  • Advertisement
  • Content Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms
 
  • Fact-Checking Policy
  • Ethics Policy
  • Corrections Policy
  • CONTACT US
  • PRIVACY
  • REPORT A STORY

© 2022 WITHIN NIGERIA MEDIA LTD. designed by WebAndName

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Features
  • Entertainment
    • Celebrities
    • Celebrities Biography
    • E-News
    • Music
    • Nollywood
    • Opinion
    • Reality TV Shows
      • Big Brother Naija
      • Gulder Ultimate Search
  • News Picks
  • MORE
    • Gist
    • Articles
    • Videos

© 2022 WITHIN NIGERIA MEDIA LTD. designed by WebAndName