Winner of the 2011 Big Brother Africa, Karen Igho, has called on Nigerians to come to her aid, revealing that she was homeless for over a year.
Igho confirmed her situation in a video shared on X.com on Wednesday while showing herself in a shelter.
“I want to prove that it is me, and indeed I am homeless. 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,” she disclosed in the video.
She also expressed gratitude for the support she had received and urged fans to donate to a GoFundMe account she shared, seeking assistance to secure a place to stay and regain custody of her children.
“Please be very kind in your judgment 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.
Igho, who married a Czech Republic citizen, Yaroslav Rakos, in 2014 at a private event in Jos, Plateau State, stated that she was in the process of divorcing her estranged husband and seeking custody of her children.
She alleged that her estranged husband is attempting to take her children away by falsely claiming she is mentally unstable.
“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, and I know no one, he is trying to take children away by saying I’m mentally sick.
“God Almighty bless Nigeria and Africa my heart pray for your daughter of the soil. I have been through so much this past year. Please, Africans, pray for my children and I. 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,” she said.
Ex-BBA Winner, Karen Igho, Homeless, Seeks Help is first published on The Whistler Newspaper