By Blessing Udeobasi
Popular Nollywood actress, Cossy Orjiakor has said she was traumatized and went into hiding after she was accused of sleeping with a dog by a journalist over ten years ago.
Cossy Orjiakor said this while speaking to Saturday Beats adding that the pictures that went viral then were actually taken on the set of a movie she was acting in at the time. “It was a make-believe thing.”
She went on to narrate the circumstances surrounding the story which claimed she slept with a dog and got HIV in the process, alleging it was probably a way of promoting the movie at that time.
“Besides, there were a lot of people around (on the set), including the director and his wife. I don’t know if he (the journalist) was just trying to promote the movie, because actually, I knew him in person.
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“He was dating a friend of mine and she even tried to intervene. He just put the story on the cover of the newspaper. It was so bad that even churches used me to preach. I was looked down on.
“Everybody was scared at that period because they thought I had HIV/AIDS. The journalist actually included it in his report that I had contracted the disease. I had to run away for my safety. But, even when I ran away, they contacted my father and told him that I acted in a pornographic movie. It was so bad.” she said.
Recall that Orjiakor recently called out the Nigerian police for failing to take any action when she reported her own case, but was swift to swing into action when a lady claimed on social media that she had slept with a dog.
