“We are Africans and we are Nigerians. And people often say our hearts are like our colour. There is something called forgiveness and there is something called forgetting. I would say it is difficult to actually forget a particular incidence that the whole world knows but it is easier to forgive and then if you do not forgive, you have so many things stored in your hearts and it will weigh you down. ”
“ Everybody is aware that the person in that picture was not me; even my brother said he is so sure I am not the one in the picture. The truth is, the girl in the picture looks like me, but the girl is so not me. I don’t even understand why people could be so mean.
It simply doesn’t make any sense. I could show you a lot of chat on the controversial picture; a lot of people were like, “Empress, this is not you so you shouldn’t take it serious.” But not everybody would understand this. I was coming back from a movie scene recently and I had malaria, you know how it feels when you are down. And then, a lot of people kept staring at me and right now I am not even sure why they were staring because I don’t have the usual smiles I used to have on my face. I’m a good person that hardly gets upset or frown but it just got me thinking why they were staring, was it the picture on the internet? During this time, Chioma, a friend of mine who respects me so much, called me on phone to talk about the picture but because of the respect she has for me, she couldn’t tell me about the picture, she was just beating about the bush during the conversation.
I had to call her back and I told her that I knew why she called me and that it was about the picture. The lady replied in a sad tone that she truly called me about the picture but she didn’t know how to tell me. I quickly told her not to sound like she pities me, instead she should be happy and pity whoever was behind the mess because the person is obviously jobless while I am skyrocketing into my blessings. God has blessed me and I am glad. I just can’t fathom how Nigerians think.
I am shocked. Recently, somebody called me to inform me that a lot of people are tagging it on the Internet that I did a blue movie and then I bought a Range Rover jeep. Immediately, I knew she was one of them and I told her she is an idiot. She is the one doing what she reported that people are doing. I don’t know why people don’t understand that blue movies don’t pay.
Blue films gives peanuts and they do it with people who do not have a home. They do it with people who are on the streets, so they can’t even afford to buy the tyre of car. It was so obvious it was coming from the person and I said ‘thank you for pouring out your heart to me.’ l told her I won’t delete her from my Black Berry, I would only pray that God should help her to change. I even said anybody who comes with the original pictures of me nude would get a two million-naira cheque and I mean it, I am not joking. ”
Yes, I even put it in the papers, I’m not joking. A lot of people don’t like to make people happy, but no man can bring me down. Do you understand?
“People still talk about it. Even when I go to church people still make reference to the issue. But I am happy a lot of respectable magazines and newspapers were there when Timaya came to make trouble in the church, we also had plenty people and security around. So, the news was taken genuinely except for the normal gossip magazines that went on to lie because they want to sell. ”
“It’s not something I would like to come out and say myself. I have put it behind me because that moment is just a process of learning. Sometimes, you need to get into a situation where God will be able to teach you before you understand how life is. That’s all gone now; I am into a beautiful and wonderful relationship now. So, I don’t need to remember anything about the past. I’m not going out to sing what is not, a song of shame, a song that does not make sense. I see it as being childish. I could, I could be stupid or childish concerning it probably make a movie about it and I have enough capital to do such movies. But let me tell you the truth of the matter, people knew the real story and that was the most important thing. ”
Okay, let me tell you something about life. If you are nice to people, you are as good as being nice to the world, the world will also be nice to you. What has actually kept me going is the response from people, the response from my loved ones. I don’t know if you understand me, if I have offended so many people, I won’t have the faith to come out. I am nice to a lot of people and a lot of people know what I can do and what I cannot do, if you understand what I mean it is just that I can’t explain this to everyone in the world. So how do I cope? I kneel down to beg God and I said God give me the strength, it is not easy if it was your sister, you all will take the burden, I said God give me the strength to bear this and I get calls from people and I try to feel it, it’s traumatizing and devastating, psychologically it’s really not been good for me but for the love of Christ and for the love of friends and for the love of what I believe in or who I believe in, I keep on moving. ”
The simplest way I can actually answer this question is: there is no way somebody would be doing that without being caught and a tyre would not have been put around his or her neck. So, where did this happen? And let me tell you something, a lot of people don’t like you when you are smiling, they just wake up and cook up a story. It’s normal among people; it is called ‘beef’. So, I don’t believe in them. If you tell me who is telling you these things now, I would call the person and say, “you said this thing, “you accused me”. I take care of so many people and thank God for the wisdom, energy and blessings. Some people are just there to tarnish one’s image. I don’t have an idea of where this came from, I have heard it everywhere, people have tried me and I just laugh. To crown it all, it is the price you pay to be a popular face. ”
Well, life itself is in stages and as human beings we go all through the stages. I always say to myself, I don’t like to complain because I believe God puts you in a situation that makes you understand what it takes to get to the next level. I am not going to be unfair to God by saying I regret this or I regret that. I think they are all learning processes for me. I am not the first person to go into a relationship that was not meant for me and I am not going to be the last. I am not the first person that negative things would be said about in the papers. I am not the first and I am not going to be the last. But with all these, I will not say I have regretted anything about life. I would only say that I have learnt and then without all these I won’t be able to understand where God is actually taking me. ”
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