Reality TV star, Tega Dominic, has opened up about the mental health crisis she had tweeted about in the past.
Tega, on her new show called ‘The Pandora Show’, said the tweet about her going through a mental health breakdown was false and her management had come up with such.
She recounted how unhappy that made her feel because they hadn’t contacted her before making such tweets and because it wasn’t the truth.
Recall that she had faced a lot of backlash after her exit from Big Brother Naija over her indecent affair with a male housemate. Tega, who was married at the time, got most of the criticism.
She had made a video crying on live while she apologised to her fans. Shortly, a tweet was released about her mental health and how she needs love and not criticism.
Her social media pages were also deactivated at the time. Tega, in the new post on her show said she is yet to forgive herself for such.
She also got into how she really feels when she’s being trolled by online bullies. She said there is also something to massage her ego because she often compares herself to the pictures of the bullies and that solves the equation all the time because they are not up to her standard in terms of beauty or social status.
Tega said, “There was a time my management made a tweet about my mental health being affected. When I read that tweet, I said to myself, ‘Me, mental health? Where is my mental health going? How did it happen?’ I told them (management) that they didn’t show me before tweeting. They said it was because they knew I would not allow them to put out the tweet. They said at that time it was the best idea to go through.
“Sometimes, I don’t forgive myself; I feel like fighting myself for that single tweet. I cannot be saying something that is not real. Anything I tweet is how I feel at that moment. I don’t think I can say I am emotional when I am not. It’s not possible.
“There was this time someone bullied me and my son. I went to the person’s page and realised that the person recently opened the account. In my mind I was like, ‘This person cannot even face me with his real account and speak to me directly’.
“That means I am way above the person. You will never see someone who has a blue tick on Instagram bullying another person. I just gave myself courage and said, ‘This cannot be it’.
“I may be getting trolled and my assistant or sister will come to my room and see me laughing. I have fine legs and I may look at the troll’s legs and say to myself, ‘My legs are even finer and this one is talking’.
“There is always something to massage my ego. I have never seen trolling and bullying in my life like the past one year. The people that have been there before me, I wonder what they have been facing.”
