Maverick entertainer and rights activist Charles Oputa popularly called Charly Boy has said that his first three marriages ended because he married for the wrong reasons.
The 67-year-old made the news recently when he announced that he was going to divorce his wife and marry her the next day.
He acted true to his words as a marriage ceremony on December 15 was held in honour of him and his wife of 40 years, Lady Diane.
“I was 19, and my mother brought her to me. The second one was when I was in my 20s, I wasn’t even ready as well, it was just to get myself settled in the US, but I later realised that the US wasn’t a place I could settle in. The marriage lasted for about three years, and I cut my stay in the US short because I experienced racism.
“I was almost killed because of the colour of my skin. Those things made me hate America; my uncles never believed I would return to Nigeria. After the second marriage failed, I married the third woman in America for the wrong reason
“When someone is your friend; it will be easy to open up to such a person. To attain that kind of friendship, there has to be mutual respect between the two people. Addressing issues with openness makes life easy, every problem has a solution.
“This is my fourth marriage; I wasn’t even expecting to marry my wife. She came one day after we had been dating for a while and told me that if I didn’t marry her, she would leave me.
“I thought it was going to end like the others. We got married shortly after that with only one witness present at the registry,” Charly boy said.
