My Sick Husband Once Asked For A Lethal Injection To Be Free From His Pain – Regina Chukwu

Nollywood actress Regina Chukwu has come out to open up about the painful loss of her husband, 3 years after their marriage. She recently had her say during an interview with fellow actress Biola Adebayo, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, her late husband’s sickness got so bad that he once asked for a lethal injection to be free from his pain, and people even started referring to him as a “living corpse” before he died.

Regina added that her entire life was transformed after his painful demise, and she still thinks about what they both went through to this very day.

Her words, “My last child was only four months old when their father passed away.

Every time I try to talk about it, I break down in tears.

On the night of our traditional wedding, he told me that all the money he had, both at home and abroad, was just eleven thousand naira.

That night, I cried, wondering how we would survive because the illness had drained his resources.

Life became very hard. I couldn’t even register for antenatal care, and after 41 days of welcoming my child, I had to return to work because my husband was bedridden and using a potty at home.

He couldn’t eat without immediately having diarrhea. People who saw him said he looked like a living corpse.

I was running around with a baby on my back. He even asked me to beg his mother for mercy death.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.