Nollywood actor Jim Iyke has sparked on-line controversy with an emotional and revealing birthday tribute to fellow actress Kate Henshaw.
In a heartfelt Instagram publish on Sunday, Iyke expressed his deep admiration and previous romantic emotions for Henshaw, reflecting on their early days collectively in Nollywood.
The actor recalled about how Kate supported him throughout his struggling days, giving him cash for meals and transport, and sharing audition ideas but at all times handled him like a youthful brother, regardless that he had romantic emotions for her.
“You knew all that point I wished to hit that,” Jim Iyke wrote bluntly within the emotional publish, laced with profanity and nostalgia.
He additional mirrored on how their relationship grew to become strained over time as fame took its toll.
In keeping with him, by the point he and Kate shared an intimate second, he had change into “too wild and stressed” to nurture something significant.
He additionally talked about her later marriage and the beginning of her little one, describing it as “a union that finally resulted in reward”.
With a mixture of humor and honesty, the actor playfully blamed Kate for setting an unattainable magnificence customary within the trade, stating that younger girls now “do an excessive amount of” attempting to duplicate her appears to be like.
