Judy Austin's Ex-Husband Claims They Dated While He Was Married

The drama around Judy Austin and Yul Edochie’s marriage is back in the news. This follows new claims from Austin’s ex-husband, Emmanuel Obasi.

Obasi says Austin left him and took their two children to marry Yul. He has asked the public for help in finding them. He also said he regrets paying for her university education.

Just when people thought the controversy was dying down, Obasi gave a new interview on “The Honest Bunch Podcast”. He claimed his marriage to Austin ended because of Yul.

Obasi also said that Yul and Austin started their relationship long before it became known in 2022. He shared, “Any time we’re watching television and Yul Edochie appears, Judy Austin will no longer be concentrating. She’d tell me, ‘I love this man’, but she wouldn’t be saying it in that way. She would be praising him, or, after watching him, she would tell me that his voice sounded like her uncle, Chinedu. That’s why she loved him.

“Chinedu was the last-born of her father’s parents. So I just took it that way. Sometimes I ask myself what offence one man could commit against another man in this world. This isn’t a made-up story. I have four pieces of evidence showing that they were dating under my roof.”

Obasi also revealed that after praising Yul on TV, Austin returned home one day and said she had met the actor. He said, “Judy came back home one day from school and asked me if I knew Yul. I said no, because I don’t watch Nigerian movies, I only watch foreign movies. She told me Yul was the son of actor Pete Edochie. I said I knew Pete Edochie. She told me she’d met his son, Yul, and that he told her she was wasting her time in my house, and asked why a beautiful lady like her would be married to me.

“She told me a lot of things Yul had said to her. She said Yul told her that her type should be moving with people like Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, and others. I disagreed with her because that wasn’t our agreement. The second thing she told me was that Yul had promised to become our family friend so he could help me financially. I said no, I didn’t need that help.”

In response to Obasi’s claims, Austin posted a video on her Instagram page on Tuesday. She denied ever having a relationship with Yul while married to her ex-husband.

Austin said it was shocking that Obasi would spread lies about her and Yul, who she says did nothing to him. She stated, “I met Yul Edochie three years after my marriage ended. I met Yul Edochie on a movie set in 2016 for the very first time, and up till that time, I had had no interest, even in acting. In 2013, it was Sylvester Madu who encouraged me to consider acting. He’s still alive to attest to this. Any smart and learned person who listens to this podcast will see and hear how he’s contradicting himself in everything he said.

“That’s because everything he said is a lie. He said he doesn’t know where his kids are, so why is he still calling on Yul Edochie to release them when he doesn’t know if they’re with him? You’re calling him because when you mention his name, people will listen, because with your own name, nobody listens.”

Austin also announced plans to sue Obasi. She claimed that someone paid him to damage her reputation, but he would not succeed. She said, “You didn’t give me my name, and you won’t be able to destroy it. He has been lying since 2022, if you watch his previous videos, you’ll see this. But all of this will come to a stop, because the court of law is where you have to defend everything you’ve said beyond a reasonable doubt.

“If you allege something, you must defend it. All the lies you’ve paraded against me and my family, you’ll defend in court.”