Nollywood actress Toyosi Adesanya has opened up about her failed marriage and a chilling assassination attempt on her life.
In an interview with fellow actress Bimpe Akintunde on her YouTube show, Iriri Mi, Toyosi recounted the challenges she endured during her 15-year marriage and the plot to kill her. She revealed that she narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, though, tragically, someone else lost their life in her place.
Despite her fame, Toyosi said she made significant efforts to make her marriage work. She also recalled a visit from Bimpe to her home in Akure, where she was found fetching water, highlighting the struggles she faced in her husband’s house.
Although she is now in a relationship, Toyosi has ruled out getting married again, stating that she had vowed to have only one court marriage, which was with her ex-husband.
“For me, I wish to be married. For someone like me, I’ve been in a marriage and people were asking me how I would cope with stardom. I left Lagos for Akure, which is a four-hour journey, but I was determined it wouldn’t affect my stardom. I made all that sacrifice in that marriage.
I really put in an effort in my marriage. I was married for 15 years. I tried so much in my marriage that the elder in the industry knew I did. The person I married didn’t offend me, but he allowed the devil into the marriage. The house that I built with him, I left it for him because my life is important.
When he left me to go abroad, I went to meet him there and even used my money to transport myself there because I wanted to make my marriage work.
The man that I am currently with, I told him I am not going to get married because I will have one wedding in life because it was a court wedding I. Bimpe Akintunde knew of my court wedding as she attended it in Akure. Anytime she came to visit, she would bring foodstuffs for me and encourage me to stay in the marriage. We were fetching water in the first house we acquired. She said I was now fetching water and I said God will perform miracles. I would be praying for my husband in the presence of my present husband.
The senior actors they I always go to church mountain with came to my house in Akure and told me that there were some items in some designated places, and they prayed my corpse would not be taken out of the house”.