VIDEO: My Husband Never Paid Our Kids' School Fees — Singer Onyeka Onwenu

Legendary singer and actress Onyeka Onwenu has shed some light on her failed marriage, disclosing how she single-handedly trained the children.

Speaking via Real Talk With Kike, Onwenu revealed that her ex-husband never paid the children's school fees and she had to leave the marriage to save her life.

She said that leaving was a difficult decision to make as she never wanted her marriage to end, adding that it could have killed her if she had stayed.

Dishing further, the icon stated that the atmosphere was not the type for children to grow up in; she was constantly depressed due to bearing the weight of the whole family alone.

Onyeka Onwenu

"It was difficult for me because I really didn't want my marriage to end", she said. "But I couldn't take anymore. It would have killed me, I always say. And that is the truth.

"And it was not good for the children to be in that kind of environment where the mother is depressed, the mother is carrying the weight of the whole family.

"I raised my children from kindergarten to Masters degree. My husband did not pay school fees one day, didn't buy clothes, didn't pay for holidays, didn't give me housekeeping money.

"Hard to believe, yeah? But he was a nice, kind, and generous man..."

Watch the full video below: