“My parents didn’t want me,” Sydney Talker reveals troubled childhood

Popular Nigerian skit maker, Sydney Egere, widely known as Sydney Talker, has opened up about his challenging upbringing, revealing that he was a child rejected by his family and bounced from one relative to another during his early years.

In an interview with Rasheedat Ajibade, Sydney detailed the instability and emotional turmoil he experienced due to his parents’ strained relationship and his father’s struggles with drug addiction.

“I was a child that the family never wanted,” he said. “I stayed with the rich, the poor, average, village, golden house – think about it, I did everything. Finally, I stayed with my aunty, and God started intervening in my life.”

Sydney shared how he was caught in a tug-of-war between his parents, with his mother and father repeatedly handing him off to each other. Eventually, his mother decided to take responsibility and raise him.

“My dad was the last born in my family and he was into drugs. So, everybody didn’t really care about him. He wasn’t focused at that time,” he recalled.

He also made a shocking revelation about how his mother once attempted to terminate her pregnancy with him because of his father’s lifestyle, but a spiritual warning made her change her mind.

“She saw my dad going up and down, so she tried to abort. Then somebody told her I would come back. Eventually, they reconnected and had me again,” Sydney said. “The second time, she tried again, but my grandma told her, ‘Don’t worry, bring him. I will train him.’”

The internet comedian described a childhood spent moving from one household to another – from his grandmother to his aunty, uncle, cousin, and finally his mother.

“I have seen everything,” he said. “I literally saw different stuff.”