‘It’s not been easy’: Joke Silva speaks on husband, Olu Jacobs’ dementia
Popular Nollywood actress, Joke Silva has been receiving reactions after she opened up about her marital struggle with veteran actor, Olu Jacobs.
In an interview on actress Nancy Isime’s show, Joke Silva revealed how she has been dealing with Olu Jacob’s dementia as she revealed that the situation had affected her marriage.
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She also noted that Olu Jacobs was a good husband and an amazing father to their children.
“It has not been easy…There was a point of acceptance for me that everything happening is reality and it is like the person I married, 80 percent of the time is no longer there. But the thing is this when he was there, he was an incredible father to his children and an amazing husband, he was practically my best friend. The husband I knew is no more and there for me, but this man that is here is someone I still love,” she said.
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See reactions below:
@omosexy143: “Regina ready to carry ur cross wen time reach. Only u de chop the money now.”
@ifynwabueze_orode: “Awwww, tears dropped. Men treat your wives well!”
@ladycecezee: “It’s well, my dad has dementia and he lived with me for a year, it was not an easy journey at all, but again is what it is, lord my dad used to be a very strong man, but with dementia he became like a baby, the experience is not funny at all. But in all God is good.🙏”
@lisaa_ndukwe: “That’s what Dementia does….it is a condition characterized by progressive or persistent loss of intellectual functioning, especially with impairment of memory and abstract thinking, and often with personality change, resulting from organic disease of the brain.”
@kayanmatauyo: “That’s for who married one better wife not wives and chaotic life.”
@vkiddiesplug: “Awwwwww treat your spouses right, you never can tell.”
@_iambalo: “Old age will forever meet everyone! We pray to have a wonderful partner beside us when it comes.”
