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<\/div>\n\u201cOne thing that I would love to have the answer [when I meet my ex-wife Gloria Appiah] is: \u201cwhat did I do to deserve this? That\u2019s the only thing I want to know\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Former Ghana football star, Nii Odartey Lamptey struggled to hold back tears on live TV as he recounted how he raised three kids with ex-wife Gloria Appiah without knowing he was not their biological father.<\/p>\n
In an interview on GHOne TV\u2019s Cheers show with Nana Aba Anamoah last weekend, the ex-Black Stars player revealed the bubble finally burst after 20 years when the woman demanded that her first child be sent abroad for university education at a cost of about \u00a326,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt all [started] just because I couldn\u2019t afford to pay a school fees that may be was too much for me at the time \u2013 a child is going to school in the UK and the school fees was about \u00a326,000 and I thought I have invested all my money and I cannot afford it because they [children] are three and [all will need to follow suit]. So I took a decision to look for a good school in Ashesi University\u2026 and that\u2019s what brought all this,\u201d Odartey divulged.<\/p>\n
He admitted to hearing rumours about her promiscuity a few years before but was in the process of investigating when the ex-wife compounded matters by demanding divorce over the disagreement they had had over the first child\u2019s school fees.<\/p>\n
According to Odartey, close pals advised him to undertake DNA tests on the kids after obtaining many recordings of the wife and her activities.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026I was more than Anas\u2026 [and] through the recordings, one of them [friends] advised that this is what I should do \u2013 try and undertake DNA tests because they believed the kids are not mine. I was shocked\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe what they said but I decided to do it. The [divorce] case was at the court then and my friends thought I didn\u2019t deserve what I was going through.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, I didn\u2019t know anything about [what] DNA [is],\u201d he confessed.<\/p>\n
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Odartey Lamptey\u2019s new family<\/b><\/p>\n
Odartey said he then sought directions from his lawyer who showed him where to get it done before devising means to have the tests without raising any alarm.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went there [and] I paid GH\u00a22,000 for the four of us. I went to their schools [three children] with a private doctor. I went there [under the guise of] paying their school fees.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I told them I had infection on my throat but the doctor said if they don\u2019t cure theirs now it will worry them when they grow up so the [doctor] took their saliva and everything [needed]. So they gave us two weeks to come for the results [but] it took one month because the doctor said because the case was in court he had to be sure of the results\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I went for the results, the doctor asked how many years we had been together and I said 21 years. He just said straight away: \u2018the kids are not yours\u2019. I was shaking\u2026<\/p>\n
After four years, an Accra High Court finally gave a final ruling to the divorce case which went in favour of the former Ghana U-17 World Cup star.<\/p>\n
During the period he got engaged to a good friend, now his wife, Ruweida Yakubu who is presently pregnant with their third child.<\/p>\n
Watch the video below<\/b><\/p>\n