Actor Jim Iyke has been attacked after recounting in a recent interview how the late TB Joshua could not heal his ailing mum in 2013, whose
death, in turn, affected him and led to the crash of his marriages.
Recall that the actor in an interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo,
claimed he had gone to TB Joshua’s Synagogue church after they insisted that he
must be present before his ailing mother could be healed.
the actor said: “It
wasn’t when orthodox medicine failed us, I took my whole family to India to be
with my mum and then she started getting better. This is the light of your life
for crying out loud and I am not going to wager it for theatrics, for
melodrama.
“At some point, an offer
was made from there to take her there by a senator friend of mine. I refused,
the pressure was too much, so I said ‘Okay I want to go, if they will save her,
I will go’.
“We put her in a hospital close to there. I went there, there was a
presidential suite I was accorded. When I went there, I was like ‘Okay, let’s
get started, they said I must come down to the service. I said, ‘I don’t have
to come down to the service, you people promised to heal her, does God need me
to?’
“I said ‘I will live in
this church for two years if you heal my mum’. So after a while, they had a
meeting and said, ‘You need to come down. I remember I was there, my sister was
behind me when this guy came and was doing stuff. When he crossed me, I
chuckled…’
Speaking on why his two
marriages failed, Iyke said: “I suffered a loss. My mum died. She was my
best friend and business strategist. …she is so smart that it is ridiculous…it
was a relationship based on friendship and mutual respect….she always had the
right words and advice to me….I lost all that when she died, there was spirituality and connection that I lost after she died….we were so close that
it took them 72 hours to inform me of her death…I am a product of love, my
parents were so in love with each other so her death shattered my dad
too….their kind of relationship opened my eyes to the kind of marriage I wanted
too….
“I didn’t grieve all
through the process of her death and burial…but by the time I started to
grieve, my wife became pregnant with my first son and I wasn’t as loving as I
should be…..I lost my sense of humor and the lion in me so she suffered for
that…I became an obsessive dad after my son arrived…I took all my love and care
for our son and abandoned her instead…I was an excellent dad but horrible
husband so after a while she left, she said she couldn’t find the man she
married anymore and we quit but still a friend.”
He added: “To heal, I had
to visit different countries for weeks, from The Gambia, to Argentina, Moscow, etc”
Reacting to his
confession, social media users slammed him for speaking about his experience at
the Synagogue Church of all nations the way he did. They also asked him to let
the late Pastor prophet rest in peace.
