They say, a golden fish has no hiding place. This is a mantra most
celebrities have found out the very hard way. At one time or the other,
most celebrities, especially those in the make-believe world, have had
to grapple with one scandal or the other.
—Uche Jombo
While not all scandals about them are true, some scandals are
actually courted inadvertently or deliberately by the stars for reasons
best known to them.
But do scandals, make or mar, stars?
This
is a question that would continue to attract diverse answers but the
reality on ground is that different scandals affect different stars
differently. Just as different stars would react differently to
different scandals.
Here, are some scandals some Nollywood stars found either distasteful, unbelievable, or false.
Fasting for a man? I felt like going crazy
A-list Nollywood star, Uche Jombo isn’t
exactly known for controversies or blowing her top over issues. It
seems the beautiful, prolific movie maker is too busy making movies, her
14th now, to be concerned with wallowing in little waters of gossips
and rumours.
But recently, a scandal emerged out of nowhere that
she aborted a six-month-old pregnancy and it got the ‘Damaged’ superstar
so infuriated, she said she could have had the head of the reporter,
who, according to her, fabricated the story. “You know how emotional I
am. I have cried for smaller things but this one, I still curse the
person, till tomorrow. It will only take God for me to see the person
and not harm him”
“For me, that was my biggest scandal ever. It
was really damaging and I won’t stop fighting till I get justice”, said
the soon-to-be mother.
She continued: “Well, I went to court with
the soft-sell magazine, for writing what I have come to consider the
worst media story in my entire life and career, which was completely
false and malicious. During the world premiere of my second movie, Holding Hope,
I lost so much weight deliberately based on my character, in the movie,
as a cancer patient only for this paper to write on their front page
that I aborted a pregnancy at six months, hence the loss of weight,” she
recollects with tears in her eyes.
Sex tape ISSUE: I was alarmed at the speed the story spread
—Ebube Nwagbo
Even though Ebube Nwagbo has told people
times without number that she is just the girl next door, people have
not ceased to see her as a trouble-maker, controversial and anything but
the girl next door. She is probably the most scandalised Nollywood
actress, but that doesn’t seem to have taken anything off the ‘Smile
Again’ producer, who is rising in the trade day after day.
Beautiful,
sexy and curvaceous, Ebube has seen it all as far as scandals are
concerned. The most recent is the story that she moved in with her old
flame, the Limpopo crooner, Kcee. She was also said to have gotten in a
fight with another actress, Anita Joseph,whom she claimed she had never
met as at then. But the one that hit the base with her was the story
that she went to church, praying and fasting for a man to marry.
“Sometimes
when I hear and read things about me, I feel like going crazy. But I
have learnt to always put on a smile and take them with a pinch of salt.
It is not easy for people to appreciate you and admire what you do.
Take for instance, the story of how I went to church to pray and fast
because of a man. I was born into a very strict Christian home, those
who know me can attest to this. So I was brought up to go to church and
do the things of God. I went to church on a Sunday, like every other
person, and offered to do something for God. But some people blew it up
into a silly story. It is a thing of the past now and it has not stopped
me from helping or giving to the church or to the needy” she said,
concerning the scandal.
Dating the Senate President:
I don’t know David Mark personally
—Chika Ike
Long
before now, it was as if Chika Ike were immuned to controversies and
scandals because of her status as a married woman. No sooner had her
marriage gone up in flames than messy stories began to emerge about her.
She
got married early at the age of 20 and had a long spell of scandal-free
life until she dumped her husband and started seeing the other side of
life. The first nasty story that crept up to haunt her was her dating
the Senate President, David Mark. The story alleged the Senate President
even bought her a car and got an Abuja shop for her.
“I made this
particular issue clear in several interviews. I don’t know David Mark
personally. I only know him as the Senate President. David Mark did not
buy me a car, neither did he help me with my shop in Abuja. All I’m
thinking about right now is my divorce as I am officially separated”,
Chika Ike said at the time.
But she is beginning to learn that
marriage has certain privileges as more and more nasty stories are
coming her way. But Chika seems to be well oiled to ride this new
development in her life. “Honestly, I have learnt to cope with them. I
have developed a rhino skin. Initially, they used to get to me but now
I’ve realized it comes with the job and part of growing up”, she said.
Abortion saga:I still curse the person till tomorrow
— Lydia Forson
Buxom Ghanaian actress,
writer and producer, Lydia Forson, who was the first Ghanaian winner of
the prestigious African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a
Leading Role in 2010 has kept her name off any form of controversy for a
while. But she still has a painful recollection of one that nearly tore
her world apart.
“It was a sex scandal, I have never spoken about
it on any platform. It happened years ago. It revolved around a non-
existent sex tape, which never was. The first time, I read about the
story I actually laughed because it was a very funny story. But it was
no longer funny when it got to the hearing of my family. My father, a
reverend, suffered, his faith and health was shaken to the roots. I was
alarmed at the speed the story spread and it got to a point where some
of my fans and most Ghanaians vowed to throw stones at me” she
recounted.
“Some days I read some stuffs about myself in the
newspapers, and I feel like crying. Sometimes, I would ask myself what I
could do to avert such negative publicity. I can’t attack everybody
that writes negative stories about me. I think, it’s part of the
occupational hazards on the job” she observed.
Boobs enhancement sTORY:I have always been myself- Yonne Jegede
Ebony beauty and sexy Yvonne Jegede, who rode to fame after her cameo appearance in Tuface Idibia’s African Queen,
is a woman blessed with mammary many women would do anything to have.
After her long absence from the entertainment world occasioned by a need
to get a degree in Cyprus, the sexy-lip actress decided to announce her
return by posting some luscious photos of herself on the Internet.
Instead
of her desired reaction of great welcome, what she got in return was a
response that soon developed into a scandal. Pronto, the story was
everywhere that she had done a breast enlargement surgery.
But
Yvonne fired back: “My features have always been the same from time
immemorial. The thing is a lot of people have always seen me as that
naïve, vulnerable girl who likes to cry a lot because those are the kind
of roles I used to get before I left. The roles I got were roles I have
to be a nice girl in the village, a girl who is begging to be loved, a
girl who has made a mistake and who desperately wants to repent, a girl
who people will feel sorry for, a girl who is from a poor home. So, I
have my own personal life. What you see on TV has absolutely nothing to
do with me. I will not cry for a man and grovel and be on the floor in
tears”
She said she has always been herself and
never did any breast surgery. “I’m very surprised people judge me by my
pictures. It was my birthday so I just went to the studio, trying to
feel nice and I took pictures and that is all me, no surgery or implant”
she added.
Posing nude scandal: It was shocking to my parents — Halima Abubakar
Nollywood
actress, Halima Abubakar, is not one to take things lying down. She
is one actress that airs her opinions at every opportunity without
minding whose ox is gored. Hate her or love her, Halima is down-to-earth
and she is probably one of the nicest persons in the Nigerian showbiz.
Little wonder, the curvy actress has had some controversies trailing her
career but she would tell you the most annoying one to her is the one
where she was alleged to have posed nude during her modelling days.
“I
reiterated that I didn’t pose nude. I was modelling and to some people,
the pictures were a little bit revealing and so they made a huge
celebration out of it. I am glad everything has died down and people
have moved on” she said in her own defence at the height of the
brouhaha.
She said the scandal nearly destroyed her career and
shattered her family. “ A lot of producers didn’t want to work with me.
They used to see me as a very decent quiet girl. To see those pictures,
it was very shocking to them. It took me some years to convince them
that I can act very well. I have built relationships again. It was
simply shocking to my parents. My dad still does not like reading about
me in the papers. My mum knows I love what I do so she advises me most
times. Anyway, they are okay now unlike when they read those things
years ago” she added.
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