It appears that a few days after an online report claimed that Mercy Aigbe was publicly disgraced by her husband during an event organised by Oodua TV in her honour in Lagos, the popular actress has not fully recovered from the shock.
Mercy was the special guest of Oodua TV in a monthly Yoruba language programme titled ‘Amoun Ma’woran’ and broadcast by the station on Sunday, April 7, 2013. She was said to have attended the event in company with her husband, Mr. Lanre Gentry; her friend, Faith Irabor, two personal assistants, named Nike and Bola, as well as some of her husband’s friends.
Claiming that the actress had suddenly vanished from the scene of the event and thereby, causing her husband who is the owner of Hotel La Veronique, to inquire after her whereabouts, the report had said, “After like an hour or so, the hubby
forced the MC to announce that he was looking for his wife and when that didn’t work, he stood up with a fierce look and began causing a scene. When it was obvious he meant business, they later took him to a room where his darling wife who had arrived the venue in a short black dress with her back bare had changed to a night gown!
“Enraged hubby Lanre dragged her out in the night gown and threw her into his SUV and drove angrily out of the venue whilst shocked onlookers looked on!”
In a telephone interview with our correspondent on Thursday, Mercy, who sounded quite edgy, said there was no iota of truth in the report, which was published by a popular female blogger.
“In the first place, I did not vanish like the report claimed. I only went to the room that was reserved for me by the management of Oodua TV as their special guest to change into a more comfortable dress. I did not even go there alone. I went with my two personal assistants,” she said.
The actress, who fielded questions from the audience during the event, said she was actually shown to the room to rest before the show started, while her husband stayed behind at the scene of recording to enjoy the party preceding the event.
She added that she had felt tired and uncomfortable after dancing for awhile and had to retire into the reserved room to change into a lighter dress.
When asked if her husband had truly lost his temper and ‘dragged’ her out of the guest room, as claimed in the report, she said, “It was a lie. I left the venue of the show in company with my husband, my friend, Faith, and my personal assistants. At no time did he lose his temper or drag me out of the room.”
Mercy said she had driven to the Troy Lounge, the venue of the event, in her car straight from a party organised by another actress, Iyabo Ojo, to mark the anniversary of her NGO.
After the interview session with Oodua TV, she had decided to leave because she had another occasion to attend somewhere. An associate of her husband, a lady named Fadekemi, was celebrating her birthday.
The actress told our correspondent that she was joined by her husband in her guest room. They both came downstairs and left together in his car after her own vehicle, a Toyota Solaria, developed a technical fault and refused to start.
Wondering why anyone would want to tarnish her image by publishing falsehood about her, she declined ever having a misunderstanding with the author of the report.
“Honestly, I don’t know what I have done wrong to deserve this. My conclusion is that somebody must have sponsored it simply to smear my name with mud. But I don’t know how I have wronged that person,” she said.
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