Nollywood actress and former beauty queen, Charity Nnaji, has said she is yet to recover from the trauma of some scandals she has had in the past.

Recall that the actress was recently in the eye of the storm after she was shamed on Instagram by a Dubai-based Nigerian, who claimed Nnaji begged him for money and called him stingy for refusing to give her money.

Many Nigerians, especially social media users lambasted Nnaji for stooping so low to beg for money on social media and subsequently calling the socialite “stingy goat” when he refused to give her money.

In a recent chat with Punch, she said:

“The man wanted to use that post to tarnish my image but interestingly, I became more popular after that scandal. I made good money from that post because people started supporting my non-governmental organisation. It has deprived me of so many things; I don’t want my past to affect my future.

“I almost drank acid after that post because he didn’t reveal the chat from the beginning. I sent that message to him about two years ago. I was so depressed; I had to stay offline for a while because the insults were too many.

“I am still trying to redeem my image from all these scandals because they have affected my relationship with people. There was a time I was in a meeting with a Senator and immediately he entered my name on Google, he saw scandalous things about me. That moment, he refused to even take a picture with me. He was scared.

“The recent scandal about me begging for money online destroyed my last relationship. My ex-boyfriend felt I wasn’t satisfied enough with the money he was giving me. I tried to explain that the chat was an old conversation between me and the man, and that it had happened before I met him. It took me time to convince him. His friends were laughing at him, that his celebrity girlfriend was begging for money online. He said he was sleeping when his friends called him about the story, and that was the end of the relationship.”