VETERAN Nollywood actress, Ayo Mogaji has opened up to experiencing domestic violence for 13 years during her relationship with her ex-husband.
The actress revealed that she was a victim of domestic abuse during her marriage as she was beaten by her husband and it didn’t stop even when they moved to England.
In a podcast with Biola Adebayo, Mogaji noted that she would often sit outside the compound and wait for people to come back to avoid being abused by her ex-husband.
“We fell in love with each other but any little thing ‘igbaju igbamu ni Keri Keri ma nba ro de ni” – (she was always beaten and assaulted).
“Even in England, the abusive language, the physical abuse, the mental torture when it gets too much, I will advise anybody to get out of that marriage.
“That when it is only me and him in the home, I will go outside the compound and sit down till somebody will come so that I will not be abused. We were in it for like thirteen years and we have been separated for four years now,” she said.
Ayo Mogaji, who started are acting career in the 1970s, was married to retired soccer player and physiotherapist, Victor Ayodele Oduleye.