Tonto Dikeh is one of the most talked about actress in the Nigerian movie industry,she is not shy about showing the world her love for her husband,however,it is not a happy ending for the actress as she took to twitter to answer a fan's open letter to her and to confirm her split from her husband.
LETTER FROM A FAN
I have been a long time passionate fan of you - Mrs Tonto Dikeh
Churchill or do I remove the surname? Your movies from your early days
of breaking into the nollywood industry arrested attention anytime, as
the toast of most industry movie directors for scripts. As one of your
fans, it bleeds my heart to hear of the unpleasant stories coming from
your home especially as you used your fans influence based to react at
any latest provocation as if you are lead actress in a home movie.
My
dearest Tonto Dikeh, we your fans are instrumental to your fame. Your
marriage breakup is the prayers of some of your colleagues and those
your actions have offended directly or indirectly. I expected that any
challenge in your home should be kept private and away from social
media. I want to believe that God blessed you with a loving husband who
seem to give all you want but though, there is saying that he who wears
the shoe knows where it pinches. Truly, your fans in Rivers state are
proud of your height in the industry but we plead that you let sleeping
dog lie.
The accusation and counter- accusations of smoking while
breastfeeding, negative reactions of destroying properties and alleged
infidelity from your husband - Olakunle Churchill can not be confirmed
by the public. We draw our conclusion from the buzzes on social media.
Beware of those you draw close as your friend especially in relation to
your marriage except we will eventually write a movie script about your
home, marriage and social media influence and sell to major directors
like Chico Ejiro, Teco Benson, Tchidi Chikere etc with a caption " Last
Celebrity Marriage"
It's sad to think that the supposed settled
marriage crisis in your union still persist indirectly as feelers have
it that you choose to subject your husband to emotional torture by
taking the child - King Andrea away from him because of his affection
for the little boy. My prayer is that you don't take your beloved son to
another controversial Maurijuana smoker's home as attacked .My sister,
which I choose to call you, please the drama upon drama in your home if
true can be attributed to you going back to your old life of smoking.
When you got married, we your fans were happy that you finally settled
down inspite of our supposed believe of your reckless movie life but
alas, it's truly a reflection of your life in marriage even when we
thought motherhood has changed you. Advising you to borrow a leaf from
some notable scandal free celebrity actresses would not have been good
considering your status, but am forced to tell you to screen into their
marital life.
My beloved super actress, the tag " controversial
actress" which you got stuck with you since your early days of smoking
in movies, close intimacy in acting and bad girl disposition do not
make us believe is your true reflection but a conscious impressive
interpretation of your roles. For the sake of your son - King Andrea and
the love show from your husband as posted by you each time on social
media, just put your home together- indeed, it's your responsibility. We
are happy the family crisis is been silient and we strongly believe
there is peace at home now. Besides your peace at home, the gist of you
breaking things in your mother -inlaw's house and pushing her down in
attempt to calm you down is not only disgusting but embarrassingly
misleading if we truly have to believe that.
Well, I do not
know much about your husband maybe because he is not a showbiz person
but perhaps a philanthropist. But I think we might not judge him from
social media stories. With time his true identity will be known, not
only then we can write to him too.... value what you have which you made
us believe he is your lovely Mr X, your irreplaceable Hero and your
protective superman.
Mama King, he that has ear let him hear, for the voices of the fans are the voices of fame or destruction.
I rest my case
Joel Ikenna Mascot
University Of Port Harcourt
Rivers State.
TONTO DIKEH'S REPLY
"Dear ‘concerned’ fan, Good day.
"How are you and your family? My regards, love and greetings to them.
"Now to address a little bit of your letter, firstly I say I do appreciate your concern. Then I move on to say thank you.
"When
a woman leaves her husband, she takes her child because absolutely
nothing else matters to her but the child. This is what I did and I
happily give all access for his father to see him.
"Now
my question to you is that did your source also tell you that he has
never called for once to ask how his son is doing? I will admit, I
personally blocked his access to me for the sake of my emotional
stability.
"But nonetheless he
has the nanny’s no, my assistant’s contact, my part time help’s number,
and many other mediums of reaching the son your source claims I “took
away”.
"He could use all possible mediums wisely if he wished to.
"Secondly
I will let you go on the ill talk on smoking as I would love to believe
you were just sent and ignored my drug test result or you never even
saw it in the first place..
"As an acclaimed “concerned fan” I expect you to pray and not to indirectly throw “concerned” shades.
"What
goes on in my marriage and home is my personal life, i’m grateful for
all the years of support you all have been giving me but when it comes
to the matters of the heart have enough respect to let us go thru our
moments alone..
"Like I said
earlier your prayers for wisdom on both parties would be more
appreciated. No one knows what goes on behind close doors…I chose to
make you believe and see what I wanted you all to see in order to
protect even those that did not deserve protection.
"My
dear friend that’s called marriage!!! God bless you immensely for even
thinking about my family, God has never failed, God never sleeps nor
slumbers, He is a just God.
"He
never brings us this far to leave us, We will be Ok.. Once again thank
you so much my “concerned” friend and have a blessed day!!!,"