Cassandra Owolabi, a former staff of actress Funke Akindele
has taken to social media with a video to call out her.
Cassandra accused the actress of physical, emotional and
financial abuse which she claimed to have suffered while working with her.
Sharing her story, she wondered how she managed to ensure it
all during her stay with the actress.
“A little update: About a month ago, I posted a lengthy
video of my experience working with Funke Akindele. But the video was quickly
brought down as a bid to shut me up. Naturally as a content creator, my instinct
was to make another one right away but I couldn’t bring myself to it due to the
fact that I touched on a really sensitive topic (depression) and some
experiences I passed through while working for her which was like opening old
wounds and I needed time to heal from that.
“I am indeed happy and relieved that I finally got to make
another video in which I touched on a few things because truthfully, even if I
was given a day I would still not be able to cover all the ills not just me but
her staff face daily.
“The experience has indeed taught me that not all that
glitters is gold, literally! Looking back I just wondered how I endured so much
when we were deprived of so many things. For instance, we couldn’t watch TV
(literally, the TV in our lodge was taken away weeks after we resumed) and she
mustn’t walk in on you watching anything on your laptop (can’t tell you how
many times she randomly sent people to come check if we were sleeping or doing
anything asides writing). I mean, how do you expect your writers to be 100%
productive when you don’t allow them some leisure time? It didn’t take me long
to develop bloodshot eyes because there were daysssssssssss when we’d write all
through the night, no sleep. We worked under DURESS AND FEAR. It is always
about the script, the script is more important than you and your health.
P.S – For the few who asked why my character in the YouTube
series ‘HOUSEHELPS’ was replaced, well… Because I chose to leave she asked that
I be replaced (no surprises there)”.
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