Controversy seems to be the new name of erratic Nollywood actress and wannabe musician-Tonto Charity Dikeh.
Aside being
in the news always for the wrong reasons, Miss Dikeh cherishes bathing in
troubled water on and off locations.
Dikeh’s
recent messy social media war with estranged colleague, Messy Johnson as well
as clash with NDLEA, which nearly culminated in her arrest, for promoting Indian
hemp on her Twitter handle are still fresh in the minds of her fans.
Even the
shameless story of how she truncated the whirlwind romance between the poster
girl of Ghanaian movies, Yvonne Nelson and Iyanya, whom many alleged she ended
up dating, is still trending among her colleagues and leading tale bearers.
In fact,
many of the fans of this troubled star are still pissed and disappointed with
her for indulging in soft pornography in one of her controversial movies.
With these
crises and many more trailing and damaging her name, one would have expected that
the Lindsay Lohan of Nollywood would turn a new leaf, but shockingly, she has
moved from bad to worse thus earning the new sobriquet: Troublesome Tonto.
She recently
threw decorum to the winds and openly engaged a movie director, Chima Okoroji,
in a dirty war of words that nearly led to fisticuffs on a location in Enugu
State.
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reliably learnt that she allegedly walked out on the cast and crew of the said
movie, ‘African Pride’, after an altercation involving her, the director and
some leading stars on set.
“Tonto
messed up my set, insulted me and many stars on set, including Ken Okonkwo,
Ngozi Nwosu, Prince Nwafor and others by walking out on my set for a whole day,
because I called her to order,” disclosed embittered and embarrassed Okoroji.
Not done
yet, Okoroji, with over a dozen movies to his credit further alleged that the
actress came on his set with the intention of causing trouble.
“While on
set, she kept on insulting, fighting and quarreling with everybody. She was
very rude and uncouth on set. Whenever I tried to correct her, the producer,
Kaycee (Filmark), will intervene and beg me not to confront her. But I got
pissed and eventually called her to order when I could no longer take her
insults and rudeness. She immediately flared up and started insulting me
publicly in the presence of my cast and crewmembers. And when some of her
senior colleagues tried to intervene, she also tongue lashed them. Tonto walked
out on us the moment she was done with her insults and refused to shoot till
the next day after many pleadings by the producer. She even threatened to
arrest and deal with me for daring to call her to order on set. Another problem
I had with Tonto on set was her too much drinking and smoking, which she uses
to delay my production. It was so bad that the owners of the house where we
were shooting told us to leave because they were tired of inhaling the smoke
from her incessant smoking. She needs help and prayer”, Okoroji added.
Meanwhile,
we tried reaching the Rivers State-born thespian for her own side of the very
ugly and inglorious story, but mum was the word. Several calls put to her phone
were unanswered.
In another
development, the Dirty Secrets star, has denied ever romancing Kukere crooner,
Iyanya.
Speaking as
a guest on a radio programme recently, the entertainer vehemently denied dating
Iyanya or snatching him from any woman, including Yvonne Nelson. She
categorically told the presenter that she and the music star never dated and
had only come in contact just twice in the line of duty. When asked what she
thinks about the serial heart breaker, she responded thus: “I like his music
and I think he’s a very good musician.”
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