The internet may have moved on, but actress Opeyemi Aiyeola is not letting sleeping dogs lie when it comes to her very public fallout with colleague Eniola Badmus. Months after a seemingly playful jab about her hairline sparked online drama, Opeyemi is setting the record straight.
It all started when Eniola left a comment under one of Opeyemi’s Instagram posts, asking:
“Opeyemi, where is your hairline?”
What was intended as a joke, according to Eniola Badmus, quickly spiraled into something serious, with many fans slamming the former for being insensitive. Opeyemi, clearly hurt by the remark, didn’t mince words in her response. She fired back:
“You are an animal… You think beauty is about physical appearance? You are ignorant.”
Eniola eventually issued an apology, claiming it was all in good humour but Opeyemi didn’t buy it. She deleted both the comment and the apology, branding it “fake” and “gaslighting.”
In a follow-up video, she made it clear that they were never friends, had no personal relationship, and that such “banter” was completely out of place. Speaking on Oyinmomo TV, Opeyemi Aiyeola said:
“We’ve never shared that kind of bond. She’s never celebrated me or liked my posts, and I’ve never done the same to her and that’s okay.”
Citing their encounter at the candlelight ceremony of the late actor Murphy Afolabi, Opeyemi revealed that their relationship had always been surface-level. She added:
“We only exchanged greetings. We know ourselves, even if we don’t talk on the phone. Since I joined social media, she’s never liked or commented on any of my posts, and I haven’t done that to her either.”
The Omo Ghetto star’s public comment, according to Opeyemi, only opened the floodgates for trolls to mock her appearance. She disclosed:
“Honestly, it didn’t hurt me initially until I saw people under her comment laughing and mocking me too. Let’s not pretend, we all see comments. Nobody is too busy.”
She went further to address the culture of mocking fellow women for their looks, especially from someone who had once been body-shamed herself before undergoing weight loss surgery.
In the same interview, recall WITHIN NIGERIA shared how Opeyemi opened up about why she disappeared from Nollywood for over a decade, and blocked all her colleagues in the process.
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