Nollywood veteran actor, Prince James Uche has been suffering from a strange illness after something struck him on his face about eight years ago.
Uche, who once served as a Vice President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, has also lost his wife who left him in 2012 as she could not bear the burden of taking care of him and their three children.
In a new interview with Punch, the actor recounts his painful ordeal with an unknown heart disease, memory and sight loss.
He’s at the verge of loosing his house at 45, Yetunde Brown Street, Gbagada, Lagos due to lack of money to pay his rent.
The actor has called on well-meaning Nigerians to come to his aid, saying he has spent everything he had worked for battling the strange ailment.
Below is the excerpt from the interview:
“something struck me on the left side of my face about eight years ago, when I was heading for the burial ceremony of Pete Edochie’s mother at Nteje in Anambra State.
“I got to the venue of the ceremony and stayed in the town for two days. On the third day, I suddenly found that I could no longer move my body freely. Although I barely managed to get up on my feet, I could not climb up the staircase.
“I had to wait till the following Sunday before deciding to leave for Lagos. But my friend, Edochie, persuaded me to follow him to Enugu where he lived at the time. I slept in Enugu on that day. In the morning I went for treatment in a hospital.
“After the doctor had finished examining me, he stared at me with his mouth half open in shock for a long time.
“When I asked what was wrong, he said I should have been dead. He took my pulse again and then, sweating, said my blood pressure was abnormally high. He said it had risen up to 300 and it was a miracle that I was still alive.”
Uche’s case has seriously deteriorated over the past years that he now spends most of his time in a Catholic church close to his house.
