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READ! Tonto Dikeh Talks About Remarrying, Her Foundation Amongst Other Things

READ! Tonto Dikeh Talks About Remarrying, Her Foundation Amongst Other Things

The 32-year-old slay mama whose marriage with Olakunle Churchill crashed earlier this year over claims of infidelity and battery (read here) was a guest at the unveiling ceremony of the 2017 African Children Talent Discovery Foundation, Unleash Your Talent, which held in Lagos on Monday.

 

Tonto and Churchill

At the event, PREMIUM TIMES had a chat with the controversial movie star and she spoke about her foundation, career, finding love again, her new status, and other issues.

Nollywood actress, mother and philanthropist, Tonto Dikeh has revealed that if love works into her life, she will gladly embrace it.

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PT: You have made so much noise about your foundation in the recent. What have you been up to in this regard?

Tonto: ”My foundation is very broad and when I was starting out, the focus was domestic violence, rape victims and physically abused women.  But right now, being a mother and an advocate for God just broadens my purview.  So my foundation is down for anything that will make the woman race better for it.

The Tonto Dikeh Foundation has been doing a lot recently. Every month, we try to do something different; and in August, we will tour the world speaking with female inmates.

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I am all for empowering women and the ‘One Girl, One Pen campaign.’ We all know that in our prisons, some people are on the death row but some others don’t seem to a have a means of survival for when they regain freedom.

I have seen ex-convicts become great people in the society when they are released. So, I want to go into our prisons to empower the female inmates with skill acquisitions. We also plan to send some female inmates back to school when they regain their freedom.”

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PT: Does this mean that your acting career has taken the back seat?

Tonto: I was off the scene for a long time but I returned with a bang. I stared in a yet to be released film titled Celebrity Marriage and it will be out soon. I’m all fired up because I’m involved in the movie. I don’t want to be involved in the acting like I used to be in the past.

PT: What is the secret behind your new glow?

Tonto: Well, firstly I am born again and when you have God, you just radiate. So all the glow is from within; you don’t fake God’s glow. You also can’t fake God’s glory because it overwhelms you. I don’t know how to say what I want to say but when God steps into a situation or your life he elevates you and makes you see things in a different light. So, the glow you see is all God. I am a radical for Christ.

PT: You go the extra length when it comes to your son. Your Fathers Day outing readily comes to mind.

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Tonto: I heard motherhood is difficult but I think my son and I share a special kind of love that makes everything easy. Its not that I don’t get stressed out or mad at him sometimes. I do. But the love and the grace of God is sufficient for both of us.

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PT: You appear to have adjusted to life in Abuja

Tonto: I thought I could never live outside Lagos because I thought everything outside Lagos was too slow. I need that slow life now because nobody is my face and neither am I in people’s faces. I’m changing my circle of friends and redecorating my life so I needed that space.

PT: Do you think you can regain your privacy again?

Tonto: I have always been a very private person and anything that people say about me is what they want to make up. No one truly knows me, no one knows what I eat or don’t eat. No one knows me and the only thing about me that is being made public is what I post on social media. So, if I don’t post it, disregard it.

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PT: Following your new status as a child of God, will you remarry or reconcile with your estranged husband?

Tonto: Love is a beautiful thing and love is exquisite. So, of course, I will remarry once I find true love.

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