Popular Media personality Daddy Freeze has shared the personal experience that led him to withdraw from church life, revealing how rejection following his divorce made him reevaluate his relationship with organised religion.
Speaking on the Honest Bunch podcast, Daddy Freeze recounted the turning point that caused him to step away from active church participation.
He explained that after his divorce, his pastor attempted to reconcile him with his former spouse—a suggestion he firmly declined.
According to him, the fallout from that decision triggered further exclusion.
“I used to be church boy. Then, when I had my divorce, my pastor sat me down, sat my ex down, and after two hours of talking, they said, you guys should get back together,” he said.
“I said, I’m not getting back to any together. I’m done.”
Daddy Freeze went on to reveal that shortly after the meeting, he was informed that he would no longer be involved in church duties due to the controversy surrounding his personal life.
“They called me on a Monday, said, you are introducing pastor on Thursday at some event. And I got ready, ordered costume. And then on Wednesday, they called me, said, well, baba said because of this, your controversy everywhere, you should rest first. And I’m like, why?”
He compared his situation to the biblical woman at the well, pointing out that Christ embraced her despite her history of failed marriages.
“John chapter four, the woman at the well, who had had five husbands and was living with the sixth man that was not even her husband. Christ did not stop her from spreading the message. Now, only one I don’t do now. Personally, I don’t do five, still deal with number six. They don’t reject them. Why are you rejecting me? So, I felt like it was a bit of rejection.”
Daddy Freeze further shared that his pastor suggested he sit at the back of the church because of the stigma attached to his failed marriage.
“I sat down with my pastor after that and said, when I come to church, I should go and sit at the back because of the person who I killed or they catch me with drug, marriage no work, marriage no work, which one is sit at the back.”
Following this period, he said he stopped attending church and began a deeper personal journey into scripture, immersing himself in biblical texts and original languages.
“So, I stopped going to church for a period around then. I moved to another church and afforded myself more time to study scripture. And the more I studied scripture, the more I went deeper and the more I started studying in original languages. You compare the text to the text of the receptors, you now start seeing. So, by the time you do the work, you can’t do that work for one year.”
