Freeze reacts to wife’s allegations of battery

Radio presenter, Ifedayo Olarinde more popularly known as Freeze has reacted to an interview granted to an online platform by his estranged wife, Opeyemi Olarinde, regarding allegations from two social media accounts with the same name – @andelasmith. 

Read about it below:

Instagram user exposes the 'dynamics' of Freeze's last and current marriage —– —– Dear @daddyfreeze , I have watched for a long time, how images of people have been slandered by so-called ‘public figures’ and ‘role models’. At first I thought, well, it is not my business but to be sincere, it has gotten out of hand and it needs to be cautioned. I was there when it started from mere subtle ‘shading’ to full-blown call out of people’s names and outright insults. The thing is, when you boldly call people out about things that you sense are wrong (that’s absolutely your opinion), you sure must also be without any stain. —– —– You DaddyFreeze, you have done so much damage to people and you now feel so comfortable with your slanderous acts – putting them under the umbrella of a hashtag #FreeTheSheeple. A pastor just said you have 52 demons, I think he meant 52 different groups of demons. Perhaps DaddyFreeze, you can explain to the general public how You left your wife – a matter not yet fully settled. —– —– But what your #FreeTheSheeple followers do not know is, how you impregnated your new ‘bae’ (as you fondly call her) in her matrimonial home in Port Harcourt.
Your ‘bae’ gave birth to your youngest son in 2015 with the coloured hair. You flaunt him on Social Media now that he’s a little grown. If you were so proud of what you did, why didn’t you flaunt him immediately he was born? The innocent boy doesn’t even know half of the atrocities his father has committed. You destroyed your own home with useless excuses like ‘my wife beats me’ and your bae’s home just to have her to yourself because she was well-to-do. Via @andelasmith

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Opeyemi also shared her own side of the story concerning the events that led to their separation. She said she wouldn’t have a stranger speak up for her as two social media accounts with the same name – @andelasmith – have been making several allegations against Freeze in the past couple of days. With the permission of her children, Opeyemi shared her own side of the story.

See excerpts below:

On their marital status:
I am still in court with him. Our divorce is not final, we’ve not even had a trial. The issue now is the last time we went to court the judge wanted to speak to our children (as they) were also involved in the abuse. My son has a kneecap that was broken when he tried to cover me when his father was beating me. He is just learning how to walk properly again and started playing football in January. A lot has happened and I’ve kept quiet because I don’t know how to handle this. I kind of saw all this coming tho because when I was leaving he threatened me that if I left he will destroy me on social media because he has the power to do so as I am nothing and he is everything and there was no way I was going to survive without him.

On how are kids are coping with this:
We went on holiday to an African country and when we got back the first thing my daughter to me “Mummy I’m so glad this is the house we came back to, and not VI.” This is a situation where there was abuse every day. A year before I left I had to stay in my marriage and be called Benedicta. I have enough evidence with my lawyers that will show all the abuse I went through. He cursed my son for covering me up while he was hitting me. My kids are in a much better place now and are happy. We live in a better situation and a more positive environment. My kids and I watched an interview he did and thankfully they didn’t cry. They just laughed. I thank God that they are healing.

On why she has decided to speak up now:
He is the only man I’ve ever known for that long, so I didn’t exactly know how to handle what happened to me. There was no go-to book or counsellor; my not responding then was me broken, confused and lost. He used to beat me and put her on speaker phone and say “look I’m beating her and she has refused to leave” then she would scream at me to get out of the house. But I didn’t have anywhere to go. I had no exit strategy but at the end of the day, I had to leave because if I had died that is how the story would have ended. Right now reading all that stuff I read yesterday (Wednesday), I have no idea who the person is behind the Twitter account, but I am not a coward and if someone has come out with 100% truth of what happened, then I will speak up. A stranger can’t be fighting for me and I’m quiet, so I decided to come out and say yes it is true. He was given a court order to stop humiliating me on social media but he hasn’t stopped. I asked them (my kids) for their permission before I did this interview and my daughter goes “mummy you’ve been quiet, and it’s almost like you are afraid of him” My son said “mummy you’re afraid of daddy even though we’ve left” I had to let them know I’m not afraid of him and that’s why I’ve decided to speak up.

On why he is doing what he’s doing:
He was born into an abusive family, so I sort of understood where he was coming from. That was one of the reasons why I stayed so long. Even when people asked why I stayed with him when I was admitted into the hospital in 2006, I told them this was someone I basically grew up with, there was so much we had ahead of us so I wasn’t going to walk out on him. If not for my kids I can assure you I would have still stayed and he would have killed me, just because I didn’t have anywhere to go. He kept everybody away from me. I  think he is disturbed, and this may be his own way of crying out for help.

To all of these, Freeze responded with an instagram post. See it below

#freeze responds to his ex-wife's allegation of wife battery. — — Greetings to you all… You see, it's a good thing I called out the fake account 'Andela', because it is now obvious who was behind it all along. — Dear Opeyemi, Why are you doing this? And why at this time? I am tempted to start releasing real evidence, but you know what? I won't… Because I won't comment on a matter subjudiced by the court. — You told the judge that I was destroying your name and the judge ordered me to stop giving interviews. I even have a text I sent Mo Abudu, so the interview I did with ebony life could be take off the screens, and what do you do? You now go and give an interview of yours, after you have tied my own mouth?😳 — Why are you so angry that I am in a better place right now? You told my parents at the last family meeting that we had, that I was going to die without you in the presence of at least 7 witnesses, 3years ago, are you so sad that I am alive and well? Why is it peppering you? — You gave me the worst union a man could ever have, the worst marital nightmare ever, yet I thank you for it, because if I hadn't tasted a bad union, I won't ever be able to appreciate a wonderful one. — You claim I come from a violent family, na wa o! Can you own up to the world about the circumstances in which your father Samuel Oni died? I want you to use your own mouth to say it. — Ope, whether you like to admit or not, I'm wonderful with children. Many times when I'm preaching, my son would sneak into my live videos, he even takes his mum's phone to call me at work. People viewing my live stream videos can attest to our closeness so why try paint me black and accuse me of violence against my other son? — The other day I wrote an article about @teebillz323 and the reality of depression. Do you think I wrote it because I like to write? No, I wrote it, because of the SEVERE DEPRESSION I experienced as a result of living with you and the point of suicide it brought me to! I'm over that now, thank God! — I started dating Benedicta 4months after you used your own hand to pack out. Does it seem short? Remember we stopped sleeping together for almost 2years

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