Hermes Chibueze Iyele, a former Big Brother Naija housemate, has said that his mother’s absence in his life as a child had a significant impact on his adult life.
Hermes stated that his father raised him and his siblings on his own, but warned them not to despise their mother.
He revealed this while appearing on the most recent episode of The Nancy Isime Show with his colleague, Phyna.
The reality star recalls being sad when other students’ mothers attended PTA meetings, but his mother did not.
He said, “One significant thing I think affected me a lot was not having my mum around. A lot of people really think that me looking for my mum [when she went missing from a psychiatric centre], with all the love that I did, she was so present in my life. No. She was absent my entire life.
“My entire life was just longing to.. I will be in school. I will see people’s mums come for PTAs and what not, and I will just feel like, Oh! My God, my mum is so pretty, if she came here now, I would probably have like so many more friends. It never happened.
“The silver lining for me, why I really still have love to give, is my dad. And I think something happened in the Big Brother show, I think we were sitting in the dining room, it was an argument about how men could not… Someone said men could not take care of children as much as women would love and take care of them. I felt really attacked by that because my dad raised me. He did an absolutely great job. He took care of really young kids. Got a bus to hustle and train us through school. It was a lot.”
