Emelia, a returning guest on the SVTV Africas daily hustle worldwide show, opened up once again about her deeply painful journey abroad and back home. In her earlier appearance, she revealed how the Italian government took custody of her children and how her husband—after abusing and abandoning her—relocated to Germany. Now, she says she has stopped searching for the children left behind in Italy:
“They’re grown. If they want to find me, they will. I’m focusing on the ones I have.”
During the recent episode, DJ Nyaami mentioned that someone had approached him to beg Emelia on the man’s behalf. Emelia responded strongly, saying she has helped many people in her life, but most turned ungrateful.
One of her greatest betrayals came from the man who brought her abroad, and from her own mother, who neglected her yet now depends on her financially. Emelia explained that she instead chose to support a child her mother loved—a boy who was a pupil teacher wanting to attend university. She funded his education, paid for his hostel, tuition, and even renovated a house for him and her kids to live in.
However, that kindness backfired. After discovering the boy had secretly married and named a child after her without informing her, she was devastated. When she visited the house she renovated, she saw that goods she shipped from Italy—including her clothes—were being used without her knowledge. When she asked the young man to move out, he claimed the house wasn’t hers. Shockingly, she learned he had conspired with her ex-husband to take control of the property.
Her brother even accused her of trying to use “juju” to harm him. Emelia rejected this, saying,
“If I wanted to harm him, I could’ve done it with food he eats from me every day.”
When she tried reaching out, his wife picked up and insulted her for having only male children. Emelia feels betrayed by a family that has long sided with abusive men, including an ex who hasn’t reached out in 6–7 years but was sending money to others. Meanwhile, she was mocked for doing “dirty jobs” like cleaning gutters abroad.
Despite the disrespect and pain, Emelia remains resilient. She now brings used goods from abroad to Ghana for resale. She also runs a shop in front of her house where she sells paint, TVs, wine, and more.
“I don’t know what they’ll do to me next,” she said, “but I won’t forgive them. Karma is a b***h—but do good, and it will come back to you.”
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