Empress Njamah may be the latest Nigerian celebrity victim of blackmail, according to a video she posted on Instagram.

She was reacting to a clip of herself announcing her engagement on her page.

In the video, the actress is seen flaunting the ring, after which she said; I got engaged today, the 18th of August. Oh my God. I’m officially off the market.”

Next, the video pans to her fiance for a few seconds before panning back to her.

The Olabisi Onabanjo University English graduate who posted an eight-minute-long video on her business page on Instagram said she made the engagement video under duress.

She also said she was not the one who posted it on Instagram.

She said she no longer has control of that account, explaining that the man in the video came into her life on the pretext of wanting to marry her.

Ms Njamah, who once dated singer Timaya, said the unnamed individual came into her life when she was vulnerable as she had just lost her friend, Ada Ameh.

She revealed that she had been speaking to him for months on the phone and people she thought were his relatives, not knowing that it was all a scam.

“He came into my life and said he could not leave me because I wasn’t okay. I wasn’t okay; I was hiding it from the press. The death of my friend broke me down so badly I could not function, and he said he would stay with me.

“I didn’t know he was busy gathering his tools, the materials he would use to blackmail me.

The ‘Liberian Girl’ actress, who said she was speaking up to clear the air, said when her ex-lover got a hold of her nude videos, he completely changed.

“He started hitting me, and when I wanted to talk and tell him this can’t work, he blackmailed me with my videos and said I’m going nowhere.

“That was when he turned into an animal. He beats me anytime, locks me up, and puts the keys in his pocket in my own house. I didn’t have access to leave my room,” she said.

 

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