Patrick Shai’s widow, Masechaba, says she’s been receiving death threats. Image via Twitter @okaygbn

‘I was getting attacks from unknown numbers’: Patrick Shai’s wife

Late actor Patrick Shai’s widow, Masechaba, says it’s been an uphill battle living without him and the death threats have made it worse.

by Nokuthula Ngcobo

01-12-2022 18:23

in Celeb News

Patrick Shai’s widow, Masechaba, says she’s been receiving death threats. Image via Twitter @okaygbn

Masechaba Shai, who is late actor Patrick Shai’s widow, has opened up about the pain she has endured since losing her husband this year.

The former The River actor committed suicide on 22 January at the age of 65. Masechaba, who had been with him for 40 years, found him hanging from the garage ceiling of their Dobsonville home in Soweto.

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PATRICK SHAI’S WIDOW SAYS SHE RECEIVED DEATH THREATS

Speaking to Zimoja, Masechaba said that it has been difficult living without Patrick Shai.

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The veteran actor’s widow said she was blamed by neighbours, in-laws, and people who had never even met them for his death.

“I got strangers coming into the bedroom and asking, ‘chomie what did you do?” she says.

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Things took a turn for the worst when she would receive death theats.

“I was getting attacks from anonymous SMSes threatening me, people who said I drove him to kill himself. It was assumptions and perceptions. Somehow, society believes that a man should not die before his wife. There were a lot of things that were happening.

“Even people close to me were asking questions like ‘why am I m I not crying.’ They were suspecting that I might have done something to him. How? I have been with him for 40 years, If I wanted to do anything to him, I could have done so in my youth,” Masechaba explain.

She also told the outlet that even the police were harsh.

“When the police come, as a wife, you become the first suspect. The interrogation was overwhelming. I had to tell the story over and over again.

“Besides, the funny SMSes, society wants you to wear mourning clothes. You wear one dress for a year, you wash it only at night, and you don’t sew it when it tears,” she says.