For weeks speculation has been rife that actress Tonto Dikeh‘s marriage to Oladunni Churchill was on the rocks. The actress who wed the entrepreneur son of the former president Olusegun Obasanjo in August 2015, had even been spotted in several instagram posts on her page without her wedding ring on.
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few weeks ago rumours hit the blogs that Churchill was cheating with
his personal assistant, whom he had allegedly flown with him to Ghana
for a weekend rendezvous, leaving his wife and their baby boy in Lagos.
The alleged mistress gave a TV interview to deny the claims, saying her
relationship with Churchill was just work.
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few hours ago however, following weeks of “allegations”, Tonto herself
has confirmed that her marriage is over. She took to her Instagram page
where she replied a letter a concerned fan had written her accusing her
of refusing Churchill access to their child together.
Here is the letter from the concerned 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 (sic) 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 an?d your protective superman.
Mama King, he that has ear let him hear, for the voices of the fans are the v?oices of fame or destruction.
I rest my case
Joel Ikenna Mascot
University Of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Her
reply confirms that she has walked out of her marriage to Churchill
& her estranged husband has made no moves to even see his child.
TONTO’s REPLY CONFIRMING HER MARRIAGE IS OVER
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
nannys no, my assistants contact,my part time helps 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 wld 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!!!
The post has now been deleted from her page.
This is such a sad development for Tonto & her family. A little over a year after they tied the knot at a traditional wedding in Tonto’s
hometown. And who can forget the way Tonto took to social media to show
off the gifts her hubby lavished on her, from expensive jewellery as a
push gift to most recently a brand new 2017 Lexus SUV.
She seemed to have it great in her marriage…