Ex-Big Brother Naija’s housemate, Hermes Chibueze Iyele has revealed that being raised by his father without his mother’s presence greatly affected his adult life.
The reality TV star highlighted that his father who single handledly raised him and other of his siblings instructed him never to hate his mother.
Hermes shared his experience while featuring on the latest episode of The Nancy Isime Show alongside his colleague, Phyna.
He shared his feeling about how other children’s parents used to come for PTA and he would wish his beautiful mother had made it as well, as it would have increased his chances of having more friends.
He explained, “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.”
