Nigerian actress Tonto Dikeh has opened up about her past battle with addiction while using her experience to speak against drug abuse and the stigma surrounding it. She shared the revelation in a lengthy social media post reflecting on a difficult period in her life.
Dikeh explained that substance abuse became an escape from emotional pain she struggled to express. Reflecting on how she was perceived at the time, she said she was once seen as chaotic and broken, but noted that there was deeper pain behind her actions.
The actress urged people struggling with addiction to seek help and appealed to the public to show compassion rather than condemn those battling substance abuse. “I was once the chaos people judged. The noise. The mess. The broken decisions,” she wrote.
