Nollywood actress, Regina Daniels, has reacted to the claim of her estranged husband, Senator Ned Nwoko, that she is a drug addict.
While Daniels has blamed the crisis in their marriage on violence, Nwoko attributed it to the use of drugs.
He blamed her brother and some other acquittances of his wife for supplying her drugs, saying such acts have frustrated his move to rehabilitate her.
In a series of social media posts, the senator claimed that each time his wife begins therapy, her brother or acquittances disrupt the process by sneaking in and giving her access to what doctors advised against. ‘When Regina started her rehabilitation, there was a clear instruction by the doctors to strictly restrict people, especially her enablers, from having access to her. The therapy was arranged after I noticed troubling changes in her behavior linked to her dependence on certain illegal substances, including going for 48 hours without sleeping and eating every two hours.’
‘Unfortunately, Sammy, Destiny, some of their siblings, together with a few of their friends, notably Sonia Uche Montana, among others, constantly defied those instructions. They would come into the house uninvited, sometimes forcing their way in, and would bring her the same drugs she was being treated for. Instead of helping her recover, they encouraged her addiction and completely frustrated the efforts of the doctors and therapists working with her.
‘It is important to note that Lawrence, Sammy, his girlfriend NK, Destiny, Sonia, and others also took the same drugs as Regina. In fact, Lawrence and Sammy were the ones who first introduced and supplied these drugs to her. They were deeply involved in the habit themselves, and rather than helping her get better, they kept drawing her back into the same destructive lifestyle. I do not drink alcohol nor smoke. In fact, I am a vegetarian. So I found these characters and behaviors reprehensible and totally unacceptable.’
But responding via her Instagram page on Sunday morning, the actress the lawmaker’s claims were exaggerated.
Accusing him of seeking to tarnish her image, she said he encouraged her to take such drugs.
‘Ned, how could you lie so openly and without even small remorse? You know my family has absolutely nothing to do with this. and now you are trying to make them look bad for no reason,’ she wrote.
‘Fine, I did drugs. So what? Is that even the issue between us? The moment we had a fight, you rushed to the public, shouting ‘drugs, drugs, drugs,’ because you knew it would make a perfect story for the media – something dramatic enough to distract everyone from the real issue!
‘You want to find a reason to arrest everyone around me so that I will have no one left beside me. Then, when I’m completely isolated and broken, I will be forced to come back to you because I will have nowhere else to go.
‘You say you want me to go for rehab, but you are the same Ned who always wanted me high because, in your words, I’m ‘sexier’ when I’m high. You liked me that way because it made me wild and romantic exactly how you wanted me to be.’
She also accused him of sexual assault, confinement, and medical manipulation.
‘Why don’t you tell them how you lock me up and have doctors inject me with drugs meant for people with bipolar disorder? You seize my phones for weeks because you hate that I talk to my family a lot,’ she added.
‘You have never seen me act incoherent, stumble, or lose control. Stop using the ‘drugs’ story to create a distraction. Tell people the truth.’
‘No matter how much you think you spent on me, it can never equal the value of the time I gave you, my prime years, my energy, and the career opportunities I sacrificed while being with you.’
‘And for the record, I would have filed for divorce long ago if there had ever been a legal marriage between us. We were never married in any court of law. Leave me alone, Ned. Marriage is not by force. Love is not by force,’ she said.