{"id":119456,"date":"2025-11-05T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119456\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:21:08","slug":"i-was-going-to-kill-myself-if-i-didnt-marry-ned-nwoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119456\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was going to kill myself if I didn&#8217;t marry Ned Nwoko&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"article-123\">Amid the ongoing marital crisis between Nigerian actress Regina Daniels and her husband, Senator Ned Nwoko, the actress has revealed that she once attempted to take her own life after her family opposed her decision to marry the senator.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted on her Instagram page on November 5, 2025, Regina Daniels defended her mother, dismissing claims that she was forced into the marriage.<\/p>\n<p>According to the actress, she was deeply in love with Ned Nwoko and was willing to go to extreme lengths to be with him, even when her entire family opposed the relationship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Stop-saying-I-got-married-to-Ned-Nwoko-because-of-his-money-Regina-Daniels-2008160\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Stop saying I got married to Ned Nwoko because of his money\u2019 \u2013 Regina Daniels<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop insulting my mother. She\u2019s the best woman on earth. She warned me. My brothers warned me. Everybody warned me. Nobody\u2019s going to cry on this camera. Everybody warned me, and then I drove out at night. I was going to kill myself if I didn\u2019t marry Ned,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The actress recounted another incident when she took her frustrations to a police station, demanding to be arrested because her family disapproved of her relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to the police station and said, \u2018Arrest me. My family does not want me to marry the love of my life.\u2019 But I actually did fall in love. It\u2019s crazy, but I did. And I still care and respect him. That\u2019s love. What is love? Care and respect,\u201d she recounted.<\/p>\n<p>Regina Daniels also addressed the current tension in her marriage, which has been exacerbated by reports that Senator Nwoko allegedly ordered the arrest of her siblings.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the turmoil, she said she has chosen not to fight him, out of respect for their children and his public reputation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the only reason I am not fighting you, Ned, is because I really want Mona and Khalifa\u2019s father\u2019s name to be strong,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<p>Watch the promo to GhanaWeb&#8217;s latest documentary, which uncovers the evolution of \u2018kayamata,&#8217; an exploitative practice fueled by love charms and manipulation, titled, \u201cThe Dark Side of Kayamata,&#8217; below: <\/p>\n<p>AK\/MA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid the ongoing marital crisis between Nigerian actress Regina Daniels and her husband, Senator Ned Nwoko, the actress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-119456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}