The marital crisis in actress Mercy Aigbe-Gentry’s marriage is getting messier daily.
The actress who has left her matrimonial home and rented an apartment in Magodo, Lagos has been on the front burner of discussion since last Friday when pictures of her battered face was leaked in the media.
Though a victim of domestic violence who had secured a court restraining order against her husband, Lanre Gentry, a can of worm has been opened by her husband in an interview with BONONLINE.
According to Mercy’s husband, she has been mentally deranged for a while and he has resorted to taking her for treatments in many places.
He said, “Mercy has mental issues and I am the one who knows how many places we’ve been to so she can remain stable. I have papers to prove these.”
Larry, who has come under several attacks for allegedly beating the popular actress, disclosed that contrary to the news that made the rounds, it was Mercy that ganged up with her friends at her designer’s shop to attack him. He claimed that while the others beat him, his wife hit him hard with a stool.
Invoking biblical curses on himself, the auto merchant swore that he has never beaten Mercy in their seven years of marriage despite the fact that he has caught her several times frolicking and fornicating with different men.
Citing an example of an incident in 2016, when his wife told him that she was travelling to China for two weeks, he discovered she spent the whole time in a Dubai hotel with a man!
Buttressing his points with screenshots of Whatapp conversations his estranged wife had with a third party to get some dollars from the man for her.
He said, “When I challenged my wife, she said she only wanted to collect money from him. What? A married woman? But I discovered that it was the same man who paid for the Magodo house she just moved into. I also found out that the apartment had been rented over a month ago.”
Continuing, Larry said, “See, I understand Mercy’s antics too well. All she wants is to move out of my house and be free to live the life of a single woman. What I have tolerated from her all these years, no man can tolerate from any woman.”
He said further that as a husband, “I worship Mercy and I have deposited N8m at Benefit Motors to buy her a N16m Range Rover ENVOGUE for her 40th birthday.
“I have also paid N1.2m for a hall opposite Sheraton Hotel to celebrate her big but she has her eyes on other things.”
Asked why he has not consulted her family to intervene, he says Mercy has no regard for her parents, citing an example of last year when her dad collapsed while on the queue to get his pension and was rushed to the hospital. When the actress was informed, Larry said she lied that she was in Calabar and till now, had not gone to see the old man. He claimed that he was the one that went there and spent about N180, 000, adding that because she refused to take care of her mom, he put the old woman on a salary of N25, 000 per month.
Attempts to reach Mercy were unsuccessful as at the time of posting this story.