Hermes Chibueze Iyele, a star of Big Brother Naija, discusses the enormous effects of his mother’s absence on his upbringing as an adult.
This was disclosed by him as he and his coworker Phyna appeared on the most recent edition of The Nancy Isime Show.
Hermes stated that his father raised him and his brothers all by himself, although he insisted they never have any resentment toward their mother.
The reality star said how it would break his heart to see other pupils’ moms present at Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) meetings but his own mother would never show up.
“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.”