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Ore Oduba foi résilience : le présentateur britannique a raconté comment sa foi chrétienne et sa famille l’ont aidé à se reconstruire après plusieurs années « turbulentes », affirmant que sa « life went up in smoke » alors qu’il traversait des pertes et un divorce. Dans un témoignage émouvant, il explique comment la redécouverte de sa foi lui a permis de retrouver sens et force.
Ore Oduba foi résilience — le rôle de la foi dans sa reconstruction
Sur le podcast John Reynolds’ Extraordinary Life Stories, Ore Oduba, 39 ans, a livré un récit franc de sa traversée du désert personnel. Après la perte de son père et de sa sœur, ainsi que sa séparation d’avec son ex-épouse Portia l’an dernier, il dit avoir retrouvé un ancrage dans le christianisme : « the one door that never closed was the Church ». Il décrit un processus de recul et de reprise en main de soi, centré sur sa foi et ses enfants.
À propos du moment où tout a basculé, il a raconté :
‘I found myself at point in my life where I had to be prepared to lose everything in order to save myself and when you find yourself at that point you realise that nothing matters other than your purpose. ‘In my case my kids and living your true authentic self. I started very much at the bottom about 12 or 18 months ago.’
Il a aussi évoqué le travail personnel entrepris pour comprendre et changer sa vie :
‘I don’t really recognise anything before now.
‘There was a big family change, my wife and I split up 12 months ago and the life before that and the life that I’ve grown into are just completely they are entirely different. ‘There are no similarities whatsoever other than me in body and I guess I found myself going I have to find a way out of this and it was definitely painful it was definitely confusing and I found myself wanting to learn more. ‘I’ve been doing therapy since 2023 trying to uncover this stuff and with that just reading listening seeking knowledge and you get to a point where you think you know it all and I was like I need to know more. I got back in touch with my faith in Christianity.’
Ore a par ailleurs décrit la perte de contrôle progressive qui l’a éloigné de la prière après sa participation à Strictly Come Dancing :
‘Unknowingly I stopped praying and believing beyond and this is all unconsciously and I think I started to think I was now in control of what my life was supposed to look like. ‘I was going to look after the family we were going to start a family it was all on me and that level of control started building and building to a point where you think you’re in charge of your life and destiny. ‘But when things start well doing what life does and you’re not in control of it it is going to start sending you into a spiral that you just cannot get around. ‘And I think there was a point post Covid where the authentic me started screaming out was just so suppressed and so suffocated and so kind of terrified and I had no idea what was going on.’
Sur le renouveau spirituel, il a résumé ainsi sa prise de conscience :
‘My life was going up in smoke before my very eyes and I didn’t know what to do and as doors started shutting around me, the one door that was never closed was the Church. And it started again from there’
Pertes familiales, deuil et priorités retrouvées
La mort par suicide de sa sœur Lola, survenue en avril, a profondément marqué Ore Oduba et transformé sa manière d’envisager la vie. Il raconte la douleur de sa famille et l’impact que cette disparition a eu sur sa responsabilité personnelle et son rapport au temps.
À propos de la perte de sa sœur, il a déclaré :
‘I guess we have been through a really difficult year as a family and I was very ready for that to kick off a new chapter in my life and it did. I’m grateful to him (Dad) for everything he gave us, I wasn’t prepared to lose my sister. ‘She has been with me every day since. My sister is non binary they told us in their goodbye letter. They’ve been with me every day since and what my sister did in choosing to find a peace in death that they couldn’t find in life; that was strength. That was courage and that was brave.’
Il a ajouté un portrait de ces dernières années de sa sœur :
‘And having gone through the last four or five years of their life and hearing about their struggles physically and emotionally when actually my sister did more living in the actual five years of their life than the previous 32, and still made a decision that they couldn’t carry on living in this world.’
Et il a expliqué l’engagement moral qui en découle :
‘What they did for all of us in those last weeks that has given me the strength every day and my responsibility now is to carry that legacy because nothing is hard compared to what my sister went through.’
Face à ces épreuves, Ore Oduba dit vouloir recentrer sa vie sur l’essentiel et profiter de chaque instant :
‘We don’t know when our last day is and the truth of it is there isn’t time there isn’t time so I’m going to make the most of every single second I have left. ‘I can’t say enough when you have been through something that puts life into perspective your whole outlook changes. None of this stuff matters but you can wrestle what is really important back before it is too late so that is what I’m doing now.’
Vie familiale et séparation annoncée
Ore et Portia s’étaient mariés en 2015, après s’être rencontrés à l’université de Loughborough en 2010. Ils ont deux enfants : Roman, 7 ans, et Genie, 4 ans. Annonçant leur séparation, Ore avait écrit :
‘Hi guys. Portia and I are sad to announce that we separated earlier this year. We’re so grateful for all the love you’ve shared with us both over the years. ‘And we want to thank you in advance for respecting our privacy as we navigated this difficult transition. We will be making no further comment. Be kind, always.’
Dans son témoignage, Ore insiste sur le travail thérapeutique et spirituel entrepris depuis 2023 pour reconstruire sa vie et assumer pleinement son rôle de père, en faisant de la préservation du lien familial et de la recherche d’authenticité ses priorités.