Karen Igho, the winner of Big Brother Africa 2011, has cried for help on social media, exposing her troubles with homelessness, abuse, and marriage issues.
Igho cried for help in a video posted on X on Wednesday, which showed her in a shelter.
“I want to prove that it is me, and indeed I am homeless,” she said. “I woke up in my homeless shelter, and I’ve been here for more than one year. I’ve been going up and down from shelter to shelter.”
In her video, she thanked fans for their support and asked them to give to a GoFundMe account she posted in order to get a place to stay and reclaim custody of her children.
“Please be very kind in your judgement and comments that you post. If it were not me, I wouldn’t come out.
“I feel kind of embarrassed doing this, but when it comes to my children, I’ll do anything for them,” she said.
The reality TV actress revealed on Tuesday that she intends to divorce her estranged spouse and battle for custody of her children.
Igho, who married Yaroslav Rakos, a Czech Republic citizen, in 2014 at a private event in Jos, Plateau State, claims her estranged husband is attempting to take custody of her children by falsely claiming she is mentally unstable.
Igho said, “I’m going through a divorce with my husband; I have been homeless for a year, and I have been hurt sexually and physically, so if anything happens, ask or hold the man who brought me to a country where I know no one, he is trying to take children away by saying I’m mentally sick.
“God Almighty bless Nigeria and Africa. Pray for your daughter of the soil. I have been through so much this past year. Please, Africans, pray for my children and me. In case you don’t hear from me again, know that I have been killed. I’m not sick mentally, and I don’t do drugs.”
