Popular Nigerian comedian and skit maker, Sydney Egere, better known as Sydney Talker, has opened up about the difficult experiences he endured while growing up, revealing that he was a child his family struggled to accept.
During a heartfelt conversation on Super Falcons striker, Rasheedat Ajibade’s podcast, Rash4Christ, the entertainer recounted how rejection shaped his early years. According to him, both his father and mother battled over who would take him in, leaving him to be passed around from one relative to another.
“I was a child that the family never wanted. I stayed with the rich, the poor, average, village, golden house; think about it, I did everything, finally stayed with my Aunty. And God started intervening in my life,” Sydney said.
He went further to share painful details about his parents’ troubled relationship. The comedian disclosed that his father struggled with drug addiction, which often led to conflict with his mother and created an unstable home environment. “My mum was taking me back to my father, my father was taking me back to my mum. Finally, my mum came to accept that she just had to accept me,” he recounted.
Speaking on the complexities surrounding his birth, Sydney explained how his mother had initially tried to terminate the pregnancy because of the life his father was living at the time. “My dad was last born in my family and he was into drugs. So, everybody doesn’t really care about him. He wasn’t focused that time.”
In his words, “To be honest with you, my mum had me the first time and because of how she saw my dad going up and down, she took me out, I mean abort. Then somebody told her that I was going to come back. That’s how they found my mum and my dad again come back, had a child again, and that was me.”
But even after his birth, the family’s situation remained tense. “This time around, she saw my dad going back to drugs, then she was like she was going to take me out again, but my grandma said, don’t worry, bring him, I will train him,” Sydney narrated.
His journey through childhood was marked by constant movement. “That’s how I stayed with my grandma, started staying with family back and front. It was just going until my mum said, bring my child. I stayed with my mum, to a point, I stayed with my Aunty. When things tough, I stayed with my uncle, stayed with my cousin, I literally stayed everywhere. I have seen everything. I literally saw different stuff.”
