“She has been dubbed the
black widow back home in Nigeria and it is spot on. He was enchanted. While
they were together I went from seeing my dad once a month to once a year. He
vanished from his children’s lives. When I called to find out how he was and
asked him to fly to London to see me, he would just say he couldn’t talk. I
could sense Abigail was in the background, controlling him. He has always had
that tough-guy image but it was as though she brainwashed him. I know he
suffered domestic abuse.
Dad told me she attacked
him more than six times, even though he only reported it three times to the
police. One attack was with a sword. Another was with a glass. He also told me
she’d fritter away £2,500 ‘play money’ he gave her, then ask for more. He was stupid
and senseless but he feels huge regret now and is finally happy and free of
her.”
Amal (above) who says
her father has never stayed long with a woman, blamed his actions on his
parents getting divorced when he was much younger. Fashanu was with Amal’s
mother, Spanish model Marisol Acuna Duenas, for nine years. He then married
another model, Melissa Kassa-Mapsi. They divorced in 2004 after having two
sons, Amir and Akim, and daughter Alana.
"Our situation has
always been unusual. I call us a modern family because from a very early age I
have never known Dad to stay with one woman for too long. Maybe it is because
his parents split when he was young. Maybe it is because women are his
weakness. He loves their company – the affection, the touching, the cooking.”
"As soon as Dad
walked through the door with her I knew something was wrong. He had this big
lump under his left eye. It looked bruised, like he had been struck, and there
was a scar I could clearly make out. I knew I couldn’t ask him about it with
her in the room. He seemed on edge. Abigail seemed very reserved and kept me at
arm’s length. I couldn’t see what Dad saw in her. She claims she is 48 but Dad
told me she is actually several years older than him. He has stunning women of
my age throwing themselves at him, yet he went for her. It was only after I
heard they were splitting that he told me the truth about his eye. He said she
came at him from behind with a glass and cut him after becoming increasingly
jealous. He told me, ‘She was convinced I had been having an affair. All she
can think is that I am sleeping with another woman – and it is not true. He
would never raise a hand to her though. He is too respectful of women to ever
harm them.”
"I haven’t asked my
dad about those rumours, because I honestly don’t want to know. I am
traditional and a Catholic. Abigail was obviously good fun in the bedroom,
because I can’t think what else she had going for her. But I also know that
footballers do those things. He also doesn’t need to sleep with his maid, as
Abigail has claimed. He could sleep with anyone, so what on earth would he do
that for? It simply isn’t true. He has said Abigail was always around women,
though. She has asked him to retract comments that she is a lesbian because she
wants to be a pastor.”
The divorce case between
Abigail Igwe and John Fashanu comes up tomorrow Monday June 1st. Abigail is
allegedly asking for 50,000 million pounds divorce settlement.
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