They have been married for less than a year now.
For Nollywood actors, Toyin Abraham and Kola Ajeyemi, life has been on a roller-coaster ride since they were pronounced man and wife in July 2019.
The couple’s union has been blessed with a son, Ire.
According to Toyin, who was a guest on “Your View”, a TVC programme on Friday, her life turned around with marriage and motherhood.
Recall Toyin was married to another actor, Adeniyi Johnson for less than two years. The marriage crashed and the actress had an affair with businessman/marketer, Seun Egbegbe.
The scandal that trailed the affair remains indelible.
But her story turned around with her new marriage and the birth of Ire.
She said, “It (referring to
motherhood) is a new experience and it’s has really changed me. I can tell
anybody now that I am a woman coupled with the fact that I married to a good
man. My name now is mummy Ire. Motherhood has changed my life.”
Meanwhile,
Toyin, who is a movie producer, said she started making money four years ago
about 13 years after she began her acting career in 2003.
Toyin, who rated as one of the celebrities to donate massively in cash and kind to less-privileged Nigerians during the COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos, observed that the novel disease has taken a huge toll on countries across the globe, adding that survival is what most citizens of the world desire.
She revealed that measures she and her
team put in place to ensure that those who benefitted from her giveaways online
are people in need.
“Before I give people money, I check their social media accounts to know when they came into into existence,” she said.
Abraham made headlines recently after some reports suggested she was an ambassador for the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on the coronavirus pandemic, after she had appeared in a video sensitising people on COVID-19.
“There is nothing that matters now except how to survive. After this coronavirus pandemic, if people don’t change, then they have a problem. My car and that of my husband have been parked for days now, there’s nothing like competition again,” she added.
Speaking on the show, Abraham said she would not have been able to help people as she is currently if it was five years ago.
“If this (referring to the COVID-19 lockdown) had happened five years ago, I wouldn’t have been able to give because I was not making money then. I just started making money three or four years ago,” she said.