For over six years, she had given her all to a romance that had been celebrated, touted and written about
as one that was made in heaven. For six years, they had projected the image of a blissfully happy couple
that could do no wrong.
Her boyfriend of six years– the one that is famously referred to as the ‘Nollywood bad boy’, Jim Iyke has
finally acted out his moniker and it is not pretty at all.
“These days, I ask God: Why has thou forsaken me? How can a man with whom we had gone through the
highs and the lows-a man who had professed so much undying love for me over the past six years just
walk away like that? I don’t know what happened and I wish I could put a finger on it,” Keturah had told
me, sounding sad and exasperated.
Their romance was strong, and Jim had spoken severally of plans to walk down the aisle with her. He had
told me a number of times that in Keturah, he had found “a perfect mate – someone who was “sexy,
intellectually curious, exotic and edgy.” Keturah was known all over the world as Jim Iyke’s girlfriend – a
wife in waiting. They had traveled round the world together, and she had stood by him through most of
the scandals that have continued to trail his professional and private life.
Not even when another woman claimed to have dated Jim Iyke and later accused him of battering her and
a business deal gone awry which was amplified in the media, she didn’t threaten to end the affair.
Keturah Hamilton, the Jamaican-born actress, model and business woman was the partner tailor-made for
Jim Iyke. She had accepted and tolerated all of the actor’s ‘foibles, issues and challenges’ and was
determined to stick with him through thick and thin.“And then…Just when we thought the wedding
invitations will soon be mailed out; just when we thought the loving duo had reached a point of no return
in their relationship, the news broke out that the story book romance had ruptured; that the center of the
relationship could no longer hold. Jim Iyke had ‘bailed’ out of the affair and appeared to have acted out
some of the elements in their joint reality show “Jim Iyke Unscripted.” He was said to have ended their six
year-old affair in a most emotionally callous way. He simply walked away “without even a phone call”
recounted tearful Keturah.
“He took away six years of memories, of support of love and all that I did for him-just like that. How mean
and callous can one get?
Keturah also recounted how Jim Iyke used and dumped her. “Jim was supposed to come to New York and
stay for six months, during which time, he would go to an acting school here in New York and then we
would move to Los Angeles and get married and pursue our acting dreams. I was looking forward to that
with eagerness and then he just walked away.”
Asked what could have been the reason for such a change of heart, Keturah said “We had problems like
normal lovers do, but we always resolved them amicably. I know there was something Jim asked me to
do, which I didn’t want to do right away. But that should not have made him to do what he did.”
However, when pressed to reveal what it was that Jim wanted her to do, she said it was personal.
Keturah said she feels used and dumped. “I played along in the reality show as if I truly was a jealous and
crazy lover. It was an act, but now I feel as if Jim set me up. He is a wicked man. I stood by him through
all his troubles and tribulations. I helped bring him to the limelight when the light of his career was
dimming. He is an ingrate and I leave him to God.”
One thing that seems to have pained Keturah more than anything else is the rumour making the rounds
that Jim left her for the Ghanaian actress, Nadia Buari. “That is the rumour I have heard and I know it is
not just a rumour. They have been hooking up in Ghana. They were together at Tuface’s wedding and
appear to be everywhere together. I just can’t believe Jim would be this ungrateful – after all I have done
for him. I have not been able to accept this and I am truly in a state of shock. If Jim could treat me the
way he did, after six years of being there for him, supporting him, encouraging him in all that he did, then I
wish Nadia the best of luck.”
Meanwhile, Keturah has moved on with her life. “I am a strong woman and I am moving on with my life.
God cannot give you that which He will not provide you the platform to stand and deal with. I wish him
the best in his life.”Efforts to reach Jim Iyke for his own side of the story was abortive as his telephone
lines were all switched off. But we will strive to get his own side of the story next edition.
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