• Nollywood actress Regina Chukwu has disclosed that she lost her husband three years into their marriage due to an illness.

• The movie star revealed this during her appearance on Biola Adebayo’s YouTube podcast.

Nollywood actress Regina Chukwu has opened up about the painful loss of her husband, who passed away three years into their marriage due to an illness.

In a recent episode of a YouTube podcast hosted by fellow actress Biola Adebayo, Regina shared that their youngest child was just four months old when her husband died. She revealed that they had spent a significant amount on his medical care before his passing.

Determined to find the best possible treatment, Regina took her husband to his hometown in Enugu State, where he sought help at a local health center.

She recounted how her husband was often in unbearable pain and, at one point, even asked for a lethal injection to end his suffering. Regina also mentioned that some people referred to him as a “living corpse” due to his deteriorating condition.

She said, “My last child was four months old when their father died. It’s a story that, anytime I try to explain, I cry.

“The night that we did our traditional wedding, my husband confided in me, he said in Heaven and Earth, all the money he had hoke and abroad was eleven thousand naira.

“That night, I cried because I felt like where were we going to start? I said it’s not about surviving that I am worried about the fact that it is the sickness that has eaten deep into his capital. And the sickness is still there.

“Things were very hard for us; I couldn’t register for ante-natal. At some point, I couldn’t stand up again. After 41 days of welcoming my child, I returned to my business because my husband couldn’t go out again. He was already using the potty at home. My husband couldn’t eat anything without stooling immediately. Anybody who saw him will call him a living corpse. I was running around with a baby on my back. He told me to help him beg his mother to give him mercy death.

“I saw practically my father-in-law dragging him. He was dragging him with his two hands. He just said, ‘he is dead’. I was furious. I woke up the next day because I had fainted. I could not say goodbye to him.

“He was already buried. So, when we finished the burial and everything, his sister said, there is no need for me to return to Lagos. They would rent an apartment or start a business for me in Enugu city.”