Nozipho Ntshangase's marriage went from beautiful to bitter, and was further torn apart when her husband decided to remarry.
The reality TV star opened up in an interview about how her 17-year marriage ended. Love and Marriage Family Mo and Phindi's podcast.
Nozipho had planned to study medicine in Zambia with her husband after many years as a stay-at-home mom.
“We had a plan to make the medicine work. I'd been supporting his career all this time. We built his business. I was driving around submitting tender documents with my kids in the back seat.”
Her husband had spoken about taking a second wife but did not need her permission to carry out that desire.
“When I look at my own relationships and marriages, what I knew only got worse, because it's hard to commit yourself to something that you know wasn't your plan and that you're never going to last.”
Noji thought it was just a temporary thing and that she would get over it, but things went from good to bad, and he stopped answering her calls, stopped going shopping with her, and the atmosphere in the home became toxic which the children felt.
“It was really hard…I would wake up in the middle of the night calling my friends and being like, 'Thandi, how did this happen?'” her mother recounted.