I left the USA and my abusive hubby- Singer Maggy Seurey

Maggy Seurey, a gospel artiste went to the US after five failed attempts. She was excited, doors to fortunes had opened that December 2011. She spoke to SILAH KOSKEI how  she was reduced to a house wife, and her troubled return with two kids after a bitter divorce

She had high hopes and expectations, positive that her life had taken a turn for the better when she got a chance to relocate to the US.

Her plan was simple. Launch her music career and be close to her man. She had been having a long-distance relationship with her fiancée, a soldier. Whom she says she loved to bits.

The 28-year old was, however, oblivious as to how toxic things would later turn out to be.

The ensuing marriage was rocky and “the past three years had been painful and full of despair because I got married for the wrong reasons,” says Maggy, adding that the father of her two kids was initially good but “my presence in the US changed everything.”

Maggy  discovered her hubby was cheating on her with her best friend. The infidelity had started when he was still in Kenya during the early stages of their relationship, but she chose to  forgive him hoping he would change in future.

But from being ‘dogged’ the situation degenerated to physical abuses when she was pregnant with their second child.  

“I was almost due when he came home in the evening from work and started pushing me against the wall. Despite my cries, he kept on saying that it was ideal I get to know that he too could get angry. I thought many times of making the 911 call but something in me would not (let me),” she recalls.

The experience made her think of returning to Kenya, but she could not raise the fare.

Life was not rosy in America where her music dreams died under the weight of a young family and a hubby who “made it clear that I should stop doing music claiming that I had a bad voice and music was not ideal there.”

“However, my heart would not agree to his idea, each time I would perform in church, you would see him look down in a manner to suggest that he was not interested and felt humiliated,” explains Maggy, wondering why when they were in Kenya he supported her music, but in America “he told me that he is reserved and does not want publicity from my on-going singing in church.”

Maggy Seurey was given two choices: Choose between her music or hubby.

She chose music and to return home, but requests along those lines were met with beatings, so much so that she says it reached a time that she would bow down to his every request  for fear of facing her husband’s wrath.

“Many at times my elder daughter would find me crying and it hurt me,“ she adds.

She saved some money and with more funds from her family returned to Kenya without the knowledge of her husband.

However, he got wind of what was happening and tried cancelling her travel plans.

Her self-esteem went south, depression went north and suicidal thoughts took over but her kids — whom she knew would be subjected to the same treatment if she committed suicide — made her think twice.

Her saving grace came when the family came to Kenya in 2014 and she poured her tribulations to her in-laws who confronted her husband.

“But he acted as if everything was normal. I was so shocked,” says Maggy, who stayed back.

“My hubby called me begging for my forgiveness and revealed that he is sorry for being unfaithful to me, but his intention was to woo me back to the states, which was impossible,” says Maggy who recently held a comeback concert.

She recently launched her fourth album, Baunatet, and is happy to be home again.