“Ever since Roki returned from Big Brother, things have not been the same at home. He just started accusing me of a lot of things and was never as nice as he was before he left. After a little while, he started dating girls that I know and doing stuff with them even in my presence,” she said.
She said the singer’s actions degraded her as a wife and it made their friends and colleagues despise her.
“He has been embarrassing me in front of our friends. I think it’s the Big Brother fame that is causing this”.
Before he went to Big Brother, he was a loving husband and father, now life seems to be all about him,” protested the dancer, famed for her waist wriggling and raunchy dance moves at her estranged husband’s shows.
Melo said she just wished there was something else she could do to take care of herself and her baby besides dancing.
“It is sad because I have to stick around someone who has hurt me badly. I have no choice because I need to keep on dancing for him so that I can have a roof over my head and food and clothes for my little baby,” said Melo.
Roki maintains that there is nothing wrong with the breakdown of his marriage with the dancer.
“I have been called a lot of names and things in my life, but I have been very responsible lately. I actually believe I changed for the better because, unlike my previous splits, this one has been less dramatic. You see, when adults break up, it is different. We have been living under the same roof and she is the one who takes care of all of my children. There is no way I can let my children be homeless or go without food. So I will ensure that they are all safe, including Melo,” said Roki.
A source close to both Roki and Melo said: “When the chips were down and no one was around for Roki, this girl was there. All the pretty girls had run away because Roki was struggling to make ends meet, now that things are better, he dumps her.”
Before Roki went to Big Brother he hardly held shows and was living off pittances from recording underground artistes. His children were staying with his mother in Seke communal areas while the few shows he held would flop time and again. It is during that time when his life had shrunk that Roki started co-habiting with Melo and their union was blessed with a baby girl. He even confirmed then that Melo had been with him through “thick and thin”.
“Melo is a sweet girl and has been with me through everything. When the last woman in my life threw me out of her life, I decided to move on. Suddenly I realised that I only had Melo beside me and everyone else was gone,” he said at the time.
He even went on to name his daughter Dawn, saying because she signalled the beginning of new things – “she is like the bringer of light, hope and a new day”.
He later represented Zimbabwe in the Big Brother Star Game and came back rejuvenated and quickly resuscitated his waning music career and with money and new found fame, Roki was back chasing skirts.
Said Roki: “I have good relationships with all my baby mamas and, as you know, I have a perfect mutually beneficial working relationship with my first wife (Pauline Gundidza). This will be no different, Melo and I will continue working together in the band so that she can take care of herself.
“We have been living under the same roof for a while now, but the truth is our love life has been dead for some time. We had to stick together for our toddler. I needed to make sure that she was at least a year old before parting ways.”
On the issue of moving out of the house he was staying in with Melo, the baby and his cousin Discord, Roki said the move arose out of the need to strategically position his studio.
“The place we have been operating from was not good for business. We are moving to a place that is by the road in Mainway Meadows and that should be strategic for the studio. In the meantime, I will be living there, but I intend to move to different place later on,” he said.
Roki said he would ensure that Melo would have a roof over her head. However, Melo, was by Thursday still frantically trying to secure accommodation.
The Chidzoka hitmaker would not divulge why they had parted ways or whether he had paid lobola for the dancer, preferring instead to talk about his upcoming DVD album and single titled Zuva neZuva to be released soon.
The eccentric Zimbabwean singer officially puts the number of his children at six with five different women, but people close to him put the figure for his children at Nine.
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