Akothee got married to her first husband Jared Okello at the age of 13 when she was still a student in high school in Homa Bay County.
She got her first baby at the age of 14, and by 16 she had already delivered four kids. (One died shortly after delivery).
Akothee’s father-in-law didn’t approve of their marriage. In March 2018, the singer painfully how Jared’s father stormed their house, beat her to a pulp before dragging her out of her compound in the dead of the night.
The mother of five ultimately divorced her husband after 10 years of a troubled marriage.
She opened up about the painful divorce while narrating her experience on her memoir which she recently released.
The controversial singer launched her book titled ‘Akothee Quotes’ at an event held at Eka hotel on June 4, 2022.
“It took me 6 years to heal, recover & move on from the shock & trauma of divorce. I learnt that nothing was in my powers apart from my Life and the lives of my children. I had only two things left – the power to collect myself and move on,or the power to give up my life and that of my children to the world and succumb to sympathy.
“If I chose number two, I would be SIX FEET UNDER. I WOULD BE DEAD BY NOW and you won’t have known There was A girl From Migori County Called Esther Akoth Kokeyo?Sympathy is Death don’t succumb to IT. SOJA ON,” Akothee wrote.
She added that;
“Its easier said than done, Divorce is worse than death especially when children are involved. When you lose a loved one, you mourn you are broken once for the lose, you hurt you miss them ,and with time you heal! You start learning how to live without them ? But with divorce where children are involved, if you don’t choose your battle wisely, you will be broken daily, buried daily, hurt daily as the kids grow, forget living for a moment ✍ breaking up with a loved one leaving you behind with his / her copies is not something you can deal with in 3/ 4 years, this takes TIME.
“If you have to divorce or break up, do it decently, you are not the first or last, people survived We are with you in prayers.”
