The prolific movie director and his beautiful actress wife
of five years Mbong Amata, 28, have
separated. They have actually been
separated for about a year now but y'all are
just hearing about it.Jeta and Mbong didn't fight, they
just decided to let each other go.
Jeta met Mbong when she was only 16 years
old in Calabar in 2001 during a movie
audition. He waited for her to mature and
they started dating when she turned 18 two
years later. In 2008, they welcomed a
daughter, that same year, Jeta married
Mbong. They later moved from their base in
Abuja to Los Angeles so Jeta could work on
his movie projects.
Continue to read why they broke up.
Mbong met Jeta when she was so young,
married him and became a mother in her
early twenties. She is a former beauty queen
(Miss Akwa Ibom 2003) and her dream was
to be an actress. Jeta didn't mind his wife
being an actress but he didn't want her
featuring in Nollywood movies, so he
restricted her. Mbong, some of you may have
noticed, only featured in Jeta's movies. And
because she met Jeta so young, Mbong
didn't get a chance to date other men, never
partied and until they separated, never
earned a living on her own. She relied on
Jeta for everything.
When they moved to the US, it became a
little worse for Mbong. She became lonely
and instead of being the star actress she's
always dreamed of, she became a housewife,
caring for Jeta and their five year old
daughter. Mbong became resentful and left
Jeta in 2011 and returned to Nigeria. Jeta
went after her and they reconciled after Jeta
promised to give her a bit more space to
pursue her dreams.
Jeta tried to live up to his promise, but as an
African man, just couldn't compromise much
and so last year Mbong wanted out of the
marriage and Jeta let her go. Mbong and
Jeta have been living separately in Los
Angeles for about a year now. When I asked
if there was any hope for reconciliation, my
source told me 'it's only a matter of time
before they file for divorce. They have moved
on and the love is no longer there. Mbong is
very happy now that she can do whatever she
wants without a husband to stop her or tell
her what she can or can't do"
I've known Jeta Amata for a long time, since
the 90's in fact and so before writing this I
reached out to him to get his own side of the
story, and because we are friends, Jeta
opened up to me.
He confirmed that they have indeed
separated & partly blamed himself for the
break up. He told me;
"Mbong is an amazing mother, an
incredible wife...all the time we were
together she would never let any other
person cook my food...she was faithful
and good to me and gave me the best
gift in the world, our beautiful daughter.
If I didn't cage her so much maybe we
would still be together. I stole her youth
and didn't let her live her dream so it
was better to let her go and find new
adventures. She's happy and so am I.
Despite the fact that we are no longer
together, we are still good friends. She
even lives close to me here in LA.
Things are great between us and I'm
happy to see her happy."
Since the separation Mbong has featured in
two Nollywood movies, one of them is
Forgetting June produced by Emem Isong,
which she came back to Nigeria to shoot. She
also revealed her sexy bikini body some
months back. Y'all didn't know she was a
single woman then...pic below...
As for Jeta, I heard he now has a new
girlfriend. Jeta is dating Australian actress
Viva Bianca, best known for her role as
Ilithyia in Spartacus (Picture below)
Viva is starring in Jeta's new movie project -
Road to Redemption, which also features
Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson and pop
star, Akon. Jeta and Viva have been dating
for many months now and were even spotted
in Las Vegas recently.
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