My Mum was a strong woman and I learnt a lot from her – Doris Simon

In a Recent interview, the actress who recently signed movie deal in South Africa talked at length about her failed marriage.
The mother of one also spoke briefly about her ex-hubby, Daniel Ademinokan who eloped with her colleague, Stella Damasus.
Read the Interview Below:
Interviewer: Did you ever imagine that you were going to be separated someday?
Doris Simeon: No, I never thought I would be separated someday. Yes, it definitely hit me when it happened. But life goes on.
Interviewer: But a lot of people had the impression that you couldn’t be bothered and that you wanted this freedom?
Doris Simeon: No, if I wanted the freedom, I have it now; so, why am I not exploring the situation? Instead of that, I am trying to make money. I have a lot of responsibilities. So, rather than sit down and mourn all day, I have to face the reality.
My mother was a strong woman and I learnt a lot from her. She went through a lot, which I knew of from when I was a little child. In spite of all that she went through, she kept moving on. My mom had a stroke and survived it; and she still looked radiant. My mom jumped from one trade to another. When I think of that, I would be like, this woman, na you born me, I must do that thing wey you teach us. Those are the things I just look back and then I just move on. I have a child that I need to work for, so that he won’t face the kind of suffering I faced in the future.
Interviewer: Will you consider marriage again?
Doris Simeon: I don’t know, but I am not ruling it out because I am human. I might just fall head over heels in love again. But let me still be doing what I am doing. Wherever the Lord takes me, I will go.
Interviewer: What would you do differently when you find love again?
Doris Simeon: I will probably right the wrong things I did then. I mean I will do the right thing three times over.
Interviewer: What were those things?
Doris Simeon: Can I even point them out? I can’t point them out.
Interviewer: Was it that you didn’t have enough time for the family?
Doris Simeon: It wasn’t that in anyway. It is just one of those things you have to deal with. People will say one thing or the other to defend their own sides. When I’m on set, I want to quickly do whatever I am doing. This is because I see a movie script as an examination; and when you have an examination you want to quickly do it and then relax. That is the way I work. I just want to do it and know that I am done with this script, so I can face my family. So, it’s not that I get carried away with work. I just want to do the best I can at that particular time that I am doing that job and get out from that set and face my family or face whatever I need to do next.
Interviewer: At a time, you and Daniel were one of the best couples in Nollywood. What could have gone wrong?
Doris Simeon: Anything could have gone wrong. Anything could have triggered a fire anywhere. You don’t know what might happen the next minute. We are just trying to make things go right, but God has the final say. Yes, things happen in life and till eternity you keep asking that question what went wrong. But if you dwell on that, you won’t move forward because everything that happens has God’s hands in it. There is a reason why anything happens and it has been written that it will happen that way.
Interviewer: After a year, what did you do?
Doris Simeon: Funny enough, after a year, I was like, ‘Doris, how do you think you want to move on with your life? What should you do to move on? That was when I decided not to dwell on the past; otherwise, I will go hungry. People that want to laugh at me are out there, so I will rather make them say, ‘Aha Aha, what’s happening? And I am moving ahead with my life.
Interviewer: What is the relationship between the two of you now, given that you have a child for him?
Doris Simeon: We have a child, so we talk. The boy is there, so why won’t we talk? We cannot be sworn enemies forever. Not every relationship leads to marriage, yet the people involved still talk.
Interviewer: But how do you feel knowing that your colleague is supposedly married to him?
Doris Simeon: She’s a woman and he is a man. Na man I go still follow so (laughs). In this industry, most of us are colleagues; it is not that we are close friends or something. No be say na my mama born am now.

British mother’s horror as Australian ex-partner stabs and beats to death their son, 11, with a cricket bat at sports practice

A British has revealed the horror of watching her ex-partner stab and beat their 11-year-old son to death with a cricket bat at sports practice in Australia.
Police shot Luke Batt’s father Greg in an attempt to halt the frenzied attack, but the young boy was pronounced dead at the scene and his father died later in hospital.
Horrified parents and children who were gathered at the ground for evening cricket training watched the Greg attack his son with a knife and cricket bat on Wednesday evening at Tyabb Cricket Ground, in Victoria.
Describing the moments leading up to her son’s death she said ‘Luke came to me and said, ‘Could I have a few more minutes with my dad?’ because he doesn’t see him very often and I said, ‘Sure, OK.’
‘It was just a little cricket practice, there were people there, I believed he was safe,’ said Mrs Batty, 52.
‘I looked for help, and I ran towards help and screaming, ‘Get an ambulance, get an ambulance, this is bad, this is really, really bad,’ she said.
‘From what I could see, Luke had been injured. I thought it was an accident, I had no reason to think otherwise.’
‘What triggered this was a case of his dad having mental health issues,’ she told the Herald Sun.
‘He was in a homelessness situation for many years, his life was failing, everything was becoming worse in his life and Luke was the only bright light in his life.
‘No one loved Luke more than his father. No one loved Luke more than me — we both loved him.’
Recounting the horrific incident, she added: ‘It was just a normal cricket practice and most of the kids and their parents had gone.
‘Luke came to me and said could I have a few more minutes with my dad because he doesn’t see him very often and I said yes, sure, that’s OK.
‘There’s no reason for me to be concerned, there was no reason to be concerned, I thought it was in an open environment – that’s something I have to understand.’
Ms Batty, who is originally from Lincoln in England said that police told her it was a calculated act that would have occurred at some point.
The horrific attack unfolded at around 6.30pm in an outer suburb of Melbourne on the picturesque Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.
Tyabb is a quiet township with a country fire station, a railway station and three small primary schools including Flinders Christian Community College, where the boy was a sixth grade pupil.
Witnesses told the Herald Sun the father turned on them with the knife, forcing one of the officers to shoot him in the chest.
Local police from Mornington station arrived on the scene at 6.40pm, when four officers confronted the man and tried unsuccessfully to subdue him with capsicum spray.
As the news was broadcast, horrified Australians have begun posting tributes to the boy on social media.
Paramedics tried to save the boy, but he died at the scene from severe head injuries.
An emergency services helicopter took the father to the Alfred hospital, where the man died at around 1.30am on Thursday.
Victoria Police commander Doug Fryer confirmed the ‘male that the police shot was the ­father of the deceased boy’.
They’ve attempted to use less than lethal force, ‘ Commander Fryer said. ‘They’ve attempted to talk him down. That has been unsuccessful.
‘They have then discharged a firearm, hitting that male once in the chest.
‘We’ve had an absolute tragedy here tonight. It’s a horrific scene.’
Police later interviewed witnesses, including young children.
The incident has shocked the local community, with one resident describing how ‘a shiver’ ran down his spine when he heard ‘a couple of pops’ and realised they were gunshots.
Tyabb Cricket Club’s junior cricket co-ordinator, Ron Dyall, said the boy had played for the club for two or three years and was also an avid footballer.
Mr Dyall said he was devastated by what had happened.
‘My own son plays in [the boy's] team. I’m trying to figure out how to break it to him, and how we’re gonna deal with the kids.’
The Victorian Homicide Squad will conduct an investigation into the deaths.

J Martins and wife delivered of a baby boy

Pop-singer, J Martins and wife have welcomed their first child on Tuesday Feb. 4th.2014, a baby boy.
”Good morning, Congratulations to me because my wife has been delivered of a Bouncing Baby Boy late last night at Gwinnett Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia. His name Jason, both mother, baby and father are fine and in good condition. Join us and thank God”. J Martins announced.

Jason was delivered at the Gwinnett Medical Center, 1000, Medical Center Blvd, Lawrenceville, GA 30046, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

The boy’s birth came at exactly 9 months after his parent’s nuptial ceremony which happened on Thursday, May 30, 2013 at the Protea Hotel ,Oakwood, Lekki. It was a private party for the couple that had about 200 of their friends, colleagues and family members in attendance.

Report says baby, his mom and even the dad are all doing very well…Congratulations guys