‘I wouldn’t call my relationship with my ex Blessing Lungáho a marriage’ Actress Jackie Matubia
Actress Jackie Matubia during Gambero Rosso Top Italian Wine Road Show event at the Shamba Café in Loresho, Nairobi on January 31, 2024.
What you need to know:
- Actress Jackie Matubia has been around the block and has appeared in several Kenyan films.
- Her breakthrough into the limelight came with her appearance on the once-popular TV show Tahidi High a decade ago.
1. I joined Tahidi High when I was barely 18. I had just sat for my KCSE exams when I got the call to join the show. I began as an extra before I became a main character.
2. Before seating for my final exams, the Tahidi crew had visited our school and when they asked who would speak on behalf of the students, the students shouted my name. My nickname at school was Jackie Celeb.
3. I left Tahidi because I met a man and then got pregnant. At Tahidi, no one fired you; it was you who decided when to leave.
4. The producer didn’t want to let me go but I couldn’t fit in the uniforms. So I left and through God’s grace I transitioned into a TV host.
5. I wouldn’t call my relationship with my ex Blessing Lungáho a marriage because we never really went through the traditional motions.
6. My first marriage with Kennedy Njogu was real, and I remember telling Blessing that I didn’t want marriage. I didn’t want to walk down the aisle again.
7. When we broke up I was given legal advice to sue Blessing for child support. I was very bitter but then I realised there was no point.
8. One thing I don’t like about myself is the fact that I am too loud. (laughs).
9. Growing up I was a bad girl, especially in High School and I later came to realise it was childhood trauma because I was raised up partially by my dad and partially by my mother.
10. To this day I am still dealing with rejection trauma. I lived with my father in London for six years then came back to live with my mother in Kawangware.
11. My mother fought to have me back, and dealing with the culture shock was something else. I was so used to a good life in London, being home-schooled, feeding on red chicken then you come here to live in Kawangware! Its was the opposite.
12. My mother lived in a bedsitter and life was quite the opposite. The biggest culture shock was the fact that my father is wealthy and my mum is struggling. So interacting with the rich kids and vice versa was quite a struggle.
