Jumoke Onibread: The rise and fall of an overnight celebrity

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In a recent interview monitored by News Round The Clock (NRTC), Jumoke Orisanuga who is better known s Jumoke Onibread has explained how her estranged husband held her back from attaining mainstream prominence in her career.

It would be recalled Jumoke Onibread became a social media sensation and overnight celebrity when she was inadvertently discovered by foremost Nigerian entertainment polymath, Ty Bello in 2018. She has since suffered an immense decline in popularity and has explained what led to it.

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Speaking in an interview with City FM, Jumoke Onibread explained that her ex-husband, Sunday Orisanuga often physically assaulted her and berated her verbally. She went further to accuse him of instigating her downfall and ruining her modelling career.

“We stayed in my husband’s family house at Ire in Osun State and there is no way you stay in such a place that you would not encounter problems.

“My mother-in-law was very hostile towards me and I would have to close my hairdressing shop on time just to go and make dinner at home.

“And it was whatever she told her son that he listened to. He would not hear my own side of the story before beating me. Whenever I had a misunderstanding with his mother, he would beat me to the extent that my face and body would be swollen. Sometimes he would even use a belt.

“I would hide what was happening because I didn’t want my mother to hear. She also lived within the same vicinity.