Jamie Perkins, a videographer and musician from Australia, met his future wife Nikki online. The moment he laid eyes on her photos, he was captivated by her beauty. Nikki, who moved to Australia from Sudan, worked as a model before she gained fame on the social media.
The couple captured everyone’s attention. And why wouldn’t they?
Jamie, who is blonde with blue eyes, and Nikki, a stunning dark-skinned woman, made an extraordinary couple.
The world heard of them when they started their YouTube channel where they shared their daily lives, family experiences, travel, parenting, and personal milestones.
Starting from the early stages of their dating days, to their engagement and the birth of their two precious daughters, Ava and Zoe, they documented it all.
One of the things that helped them gain a significant following was that they were an interracial couple who addressed cultural differences and challenges of being part of such a relationship.
Jamie and Nikki served as role models for many, particularly in fostering understanding and acceptance of interracial relationships.
Sadly, in 2019, the couple decided to call their marriage quits, which came as a shock to their thousands of fans. And although it seemed like they handled their divorce with maturity as they continued filming aspects of their lives, focusing on their individual projects and co-parenting their baby girls who have inherited the best of both their parents, the truth was different, according to Jamie.
Namely, he posted a video on YouTube in which he spoke of the reasons why he and Nikki separated, stating that she’d been unfaithful and was seeing an ex-boyfriend behind his back.
He also accused her of being abusive and violent.
“I’ve been quietly struggling for a really, really long time, and I’ve just been in fear, living in fear, living in survival mode, pretty much on autopilot for a really long time just trying to maintain my place as a father in Ava and Zoe’s lives,” the dad of two said.
Following the split, Jamie was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, situational depression and severe social anxiety.
Further, Jamie claimed that Nikki tried to “isolate him” from his loved ones, she was “controlling” and wanted to “destroy his career.”
According to him, Nikki was spreading lies about him with everyone he knew.
“I want to be able to give the girls the best lives that I can, but it’s just constant restrictions. I’m constantly having to give up more and more and more. Nikki just wanted my life to be as hard as possible,” he claimed.
When he received an all-paid trip to Disneyland, he hadn’t invited Nikki to go with him and the girls and that angered her to the extent that she attacked him.
“Obviously, I wasn’t going to bring the person who abuses me on a trip like that,” Jamie said, adding that Nikki gave him a hard time because she believed he was getting old when he turned fourty.
“This is the sort of stuff I deal with,” he said. “I’ve dealt with violence as well.”
“She had come to the house and been violent. Punched me multiple times, kicked me, just been horrible. This was in front of the kids, in front of my mom. Things like this have happened throughout our marriage as well. Nikki was like two different people, and that’s what I always struggled with,” he claimed.
Allegedly, Nikki attacked Jamie with heavy objects multiple times, and during one of those times, he felt his fists clench, and he just left the house. He said he was never a man who would ever hurt or hit a woman, and Nikki triggering the feeling of him wanting to hit her back was enough sign that he needed to walk away.
“I’ve been in survival mode for years. My self-esteem has just completely crumbled. I’ve lost sense of who I am outside of being a father,” Jamie said in the video.
People took their time to comment under Jamie’s video, with many offering their support and thanking him for speaking up openly of the abuse he experienced.
“You have so much strength. Everyone always believes when women say they’re being abused but when men try to stand up for themselves they’re shut down. Thank you for speaking up and I hope you heal and hope this shows other men they can stand up for themselves,” someone commented.
“Damn, I can feel his pain. As someone who went thru trauma in a marriage, I totally get why you choose to be transparent now. The transparency IS a huge part of the healing process. I hope Jamie and Nikki get the happiness they deserve and eventually build a healthy relationship for the kids,” another person added.
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