Ifedayo Olarinde and Opeyemi Oni

Domestic abuse in marriages is not limited to women alone, some men are also victims of abuse in their marriage. Former broadcaster, Ifedayo Olarinde, also known as Daddy Freeze, is one of the few men who battled several domestic abuses in his first marriage to Opeyemi Oni, his estranged wife. The couple lived together for almost 10 years before the marriage broke up via a messy divorce in 2014. Even after the divorce, both of them were still at each other's throat. There were accusations and counter- accusations. Daddy Freeze posted several pictures of injuries he sustained when still married to Opeyemi on social media. He alleged that Opeyemi once tried to strangle him as they engaged in an altercation. According to him, each time she got angry, she would pick up an object and throw it at him and he sustained injuries as a result of that. He claimed that his former wife had a faulty background, which affected her emotionally and psychologically. Opeyemi on the other hand alleged that she was the victim of domestic violence in her marriage. She was admitted in a hospital for treatment in 2006 after sustaining injuries from a fight with her estranged husband. Their first son once had a kneecap injury while trying to shield his mother from the series of beating she was receiving from Daddy Freeze. He would record the act while beating her and scream at her to leave the marriage, but Opeyemi stayed because she had no escape strategy and nowhere to go. When she could no longer endure the beatings, she packed her things and left. The two former love birds had two children before they were divorced.