Joseph Benjamin - I never said I married my wife out of pity

In an interview with Bella Naija, the actor and TV presenter said he only went on to marry his wife when she got pregnant for him as he didn't want to have his child out of wedlock. This statement, he said have been misinterpreted by people to mean that he married her simply out of pity...''which is not what I said.'' The actor took to twitter to make it known that he never said his marriage was based on pity for his wife. Read his tweets from down up...

More tweets after the cut, plus an extract from his interview with BN

What Joseph Benjamin told BN

What really happened in his marriage? “I was married for 8 years. It was a rather odd situation at that time. She got pregnant and I didn’t want to have a child out of wedlock and so I married her so we could build a home together, even though we had given birth to the first child. Things weren’t rosy then, but I believed it was the right thing to do for the sake of the child. I overlooked my own personal desires, I just wanted to do right. Our second child came and I stood by my family like I always have; but no one is perfect, we had our issues – the crisis persisted but we stayed because of the kids. But you never make that kind of decision because if the parents are not happy together then the children suffer.“

“I’ll also like to correct a misconception – she is not older than me, and she wasn’t taking care of my financial needs as people have insinuated. We were both starting off in life on the same grounds – no one was exploited.”