Following the social media accusations being thrown at the actress/movie producer, she came out to clear the air that she was not aware of the late actress Adejumoke A derounmu’s illness and death.
The film producer came out clearly and denied the neglect claim labelled on her by her former colleague’s brother, Adeola, saying she was not aware of the actress’s illness which resulted to her death.Adereounmu who was a cast of the popular tv series ‘jenifa’s dairy ‘ which is produced and directed by Funke Akindele died last week which sparked a lot of tributes on social media.
But when Funke sent in her condolence to the the family, the deceased elder brother Adeola, called her out claiming her act of empathy was just ‘eye service’ he accused her of neglect claiming she was contacted while Aderounmu was sick but did not respond. ” aye and camera to ba ri won kosa” he wrote.
” you wey them call tire, you no turn up, she even sent Pascal to you, you still no reach out, why the eye service now wey she don kpai? omo shout out to Rita Dominic and Sotayo Gaga”
But reacting to the claim on Tuesday via instagram live, Funke Akindele denied the allegations saying she wasn’t aware of Aderounmu’s illness. she further stated that due to her ignorance she had intentions of calling the late actress for a movie projects.
Also denying the claims of not reaching out to her colleagues in times of need the producer said ” i do not make noise about helping people”
” somebody commented on my page, ‘May you bury your children’ i think that is serious , Why? what have i done wrong? i am doing this because i hold my fans dear to my heart if you keep saying i am not going to talk, people will keep accusing you wrongly for what you did not do, i am not ready because i am so unhappy” she said.
Further explaining, Funke said she met Aderounmu years ago when she was struggling as an upcoming actress, gave her some roles and got her pay after everything. in her words ” i met the late Aderounmu as an upcoming actress, gave her some roles, she featured in ‘Jenifa’s diary’ ‘industreet’ and that was it she acted her role, got paid and left so,
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Sometimes i just messaged Jide Awobona, because Jide and Jumoke were close somehow. I asked Jide where is Jumoke, please call her and check up on her, he said , she wants people to be calling her for jobs and i said let us call her for a job, And you all know that after a “tribe called Judah” i have not done any project again.
“Pascaline Alex reached out to me that they wrote something online, i just went there and saw Jumoke’s brother, He was upset, i said i know he is grieving, i understand , but i have also been struggling since i lost my mum and i have been depressed”
