”Why My Parents Wanted To Kill Me at Birth”- Comedian Gordons Talks About His Underprivileged Background

Nigerian comedian, Godwin Komone better known with his stage name, Gordons has spoken about his emotion-laden background.

In a recent interview with Tosin Clegg, the multi-talented comedian and dad–of-4 spoke about family, growing up as a child.

Gordons, an Urhobo man from Delta state, spoke about how his parents wanted him dead at birth simply because he had 7 teeth in his mouth.

Gordons, who is the 1st child of his parents said speaking about his growing up makes him emotional and depressed because he was treated like a curse and a sin right from the beginning.

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In his words,

“I was a child that wasn’t loved, as I didn’t receive any love from my parents at all. At some point, I was a sacrilege to them as I was born with seven teeth in my mouth, and some people said it was a mark of God, while others said it was a taboo.

So I was treated like a curse and a sin right from the beginning. It was difficult, as they wanted to kill me, but thank God for some people who said they shouldn’t as they didn’t know my destiny.

Growing up was hell but we used the pain we grew up with in the past to do what we have done today so that those going through things would have hope no matter what they are going through.”

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In an earlier interview, Gordon had this to say:

“Growing up was hell because we were the poorest of the poor and even the people considered as poor used to call us poor people, it was that bad. I used to trek to school barefoot because we didn’t have money to buy shoes and even when patch trousers had not started reigning, I had already started wearing patch patch trousers to school because the uniform was torn but no money to replace it so I had to patch and wear it.”

He stated further that:

“It got to a point that my dad lost what little job he had then and at the age of 12, I had to start being the breadwinner. I would go out and fish all morning so that we could have something to eat and sell.”

Gordons concluded by saying:

“It was hell growing up, but it taught me a lesson in life that it is only God that lifts a man up.”

 

Gordons is a graduate of Integrated Science from Delta State University. He attended Ighogbadu Primary School, Delta state and then proceeded to Nana College, Delta state for his secondary education.

He got married on March 23, 2002 and his marriage is blessed with 4 children.