{"id":1233628,"date":"2022-10-25T07:33:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/i-would-have-died-like-osinachi-if-i-stayed-in-my-previous-marriage-esther-smith\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T07:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:33:02","slug":"i-would-have-died-like-osinachi-if-i-stayed-in-my-previous-marriage-esther-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/i-would-have-died-like-osinachi-if-i-stayed-in-my-previous-marriage-esther-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"I would have died like Osinachi if I stayed in my previous marriage \u2013 Esther Smith \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Esther Smith, a gospel music veteran, recently explained why she left her husband and moved to Germany.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Esther said she was physically and verbally assaulted by her husband in an interview with One Ghana TV on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, she said that it was at that time that her kid was diagnosed with a cardiac defect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, my child I gave birth to in Dutchland, some people turned it around and said I had given my child to another man, and the person perpetrating those lies was someone close to me. The person was creating an impression.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy situation would have turned out just like the lady who died in Nigeria, Osinachi\u2019s death. So I had to quit. I had to quit because God has given us brains and sense. You have to apply it,\u201d she divulged.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0Esther Smith nearly quit music after rumours that I slept with her \u2013 Morris Babyface<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Esther also disclosed that when she left her marriage, her ex-husband made up stories that shocked her to the extent that she couldn\u2019t defend herself until this day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not about what people are saying or doing, but then you need to think and say, where are things headed? I think I can die. So you have to quit and if you quit, it won\u2019t make the person happy, so they will have to frame stories to tarnish your image when you know nothing about it. Since I am not good at talking too much, I had to keep quiet. That was what happened,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>She continued by saying that God has gifted everyone with the ability to think clearly in times of stress, but not the fortitude to remain in the midst of that stress and persevere.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the \u2018Onyame Ye Nyame\u2019 singer said that throughout her four years of marriage to Reverend Ahenkan Bonsu, he used her as a punching bag.<\/p>\n<p>On April 8, 2022, Osinachi Nwachukwu, a gospel singer in Nigeria best known for her song \u201cEkwueme,\u201d died purportedly after numerous kicks to the chest delivered by her husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Esther Smith, a gospel music veteran, recently explained why she left her husband and moved to Germany. Esther said she was physically and verbally assaulted by her husband in an interview with One Ghana TV on YouTube. In addition, she said that it was at that time that her kid was diagnosed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1233630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7763,4597,628,7811,18776,3752,11689],"class_list":["post-1233628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-died","tag-esther","tag-marriage","tag-osinachi","tag-previous","tag-smith","tag-stayed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}