Former Big Brother Africa contestant Karen Igho, known as Karen, has cried to Nigerians revealing that she wants to divorce her husband, Yaroslav Rakos.
The couple, who tied the knot in a private ceremony in Jos, Plateau State, back in 2014 after dating for nine years, have faced numerous difficulties during their marriage.
Together, they have two children, born in 2015 and 2017.
On Tuesday, Karen took to Instagram to share the challenges she’s been facing, revealing that her husband is trying to take their children away from her by claiming she is mentally sick.
Since moving to the United States, the 2011 Big Brother Africa co-winner revealed that she has been homeless for a year and has been hurt sexually and physically.
She argued that she doesn’t do drugs and asked her followers for their support and prayers, adding that should anything happen to her, her husband should be held responsible.
She wrote, “I’m going through a divorce with my husband,I have been homeless for a year and I have been hurt sexually and physically so if anything happens ask or hold the man who brought me to a country where and I know no one,he is trying to take children away by saying I’m mentally sick”
“God Almighty bless Nigeria and Africa my heart pray for your daughter of the soil,I have been through so much this past year, please African pray for my children and I In case you don’t you hear from me again know that I have been killed, am not sick mentally and don’t do drugs.”
Karen Igho became a household name after winning the Big Brother Africa reality show in 2011, making history as the first Nigerian and African woman to win the competition, taking home $200,000 along with co-winner Wendell Robert Parson from Zimbabwe.
Following her win, Karen ventured into acting with a role in the M-Net series “Tinsel” and appeared in movies like Blackberry Babes Reloaded. She also co-hosted the Naija FM show ‘Wetin Dey’ alongside on-air personality Ifektive.
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