Nollywood actress, Empress Njamah has finally broken her silence over claims she is engaged.
The film star has been in the news since a video of her wearing an engagement ring was shared on her Instagram page on Thursday.
Reacting to the incident in a now-viral video, Njamah confirmed that her account was hacked, adding that “I am a victim of blackmail”. She said the death of Ada Ameh, her friend, left her broken and vulnerable for months and Nigerians are reacting to the events on social media.
She said at the time, a man identified as Josh Wade came into her life and promised to stand by her.
Njamah said Wade, however, became abusive after he got naked footage of her.
“I’m just doing this video to clear the air. I’m a victim of blackmail but thank God I’m alive to tell you the story. It’s not easy coming out to do this, but I’m here doing it,” she said.
Actress Empress Njamah Cries Out Over Engagement, Domestic Violence
Njamah revealed that the engagement video on her personal page was made under duress and that she had been scammed, beaten, held hostage by the man, who she said is from Liberia.
She said, "A guy that one couldn’t even call a human being came into my life in pretence of
wanting to marry me, I didn’t know that he had other motives and he came when I was very vulnerable, when I lost my friend, Ada Ameh. I’ve been speaking to this guy for months on phone, speaking to people I thought were his relatives, everything is just scam.
He came into my life, said he could not leave me because I wasn’t not okay. I really wasn’t okay, I was hiding it from the press. The death of my friend broke me down so bad I could not function and he said he was going to stay with me,
I didn’t know he was busy gathering his tools, his materials which he was going to use to blackmail me.
“Afterwards, he had my naked videos and he changed, he started hitting me and when I wanted to talk and tell him this can’t work;
he blackmailed me with my own videos and said I'm going nowhere and that’s when he turned into an animal. Beats me anytime, locks me up, put the keys in his pocket, in my own house. I didn’t have access to leaving my room.
This is the guy who lied me that when he came into Nigeria, all his things were stolen, his phones, his credit cards, his clothes and he got into trouble and he needed lawyers which I gave a huge amount of money, talking millions.
He was out, he came to Abuja and started living with me. I became a shadow of myself, the Empress you know became a shadow of herself, if you were around me, you’d notice my social life was no more, there was nothing to post anymore. My fans were asking 'Are you okay?'
They didn’t know I was going through something worse than that."
The actress added, "He wrecked me, finished everything. This person I'm telling you actually got a ring and forced me to do a video, which he posted on my page because he has access to my page.
He changed all the passwords, logged me out of every email I have, everything I have, all my phones, my iCloud, everything, I don’t have access to anything, I don’t mind. I’m alive to tell you the story, I was able to run that night, I ran into the street, not minding who or how,
I fell into a gutter. I was able to see a mallam to ask for a phone. I called my brother and he picked me from the hospital, the following morning, took me home.
“This guy came back, after looking for me, took my car, took my international passport, he took my remaining money.
He took my iPad, my earpods, he had two bags of my valuables, took the car and left. He has the guts to be sending threat videos saying whatever I do, whoever I tell he’ll put it out there.
“I'm not the one handling that page. #empressnjamah is not been handled by me.
Go to my page and see the video he posted, does that look like something I will post? I was under duress posting that video called engagement."
