Veteran Nollywood actor Jim Iyke has said that his attack on fellow actor, Uche Maduagwu was not a stunt for his new film, Bad Comments.
Iyke had been involved in a nasty fight with Maduagwu in a viral video that surfaced on social media on Tuesday.
Maduagwu who is famous for being a social media troll and his controversial lifestyle got the beating of his life after he called Iyke a ritualist.
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Maduagwu in a video that surfaced online had said, “Money full everywhere, what are you doing for a living. I am sure Jim Iyke na fraudster, or ritualist.
“Go and look at the car he is driving, it’s expensive. Where is he getting the money? I hear he cannot enter America because he has done wayo.”
In a BBB Igbo news interview segment, Iyke said he was angry with the way Maduagwu was going about painting people black.
He said: “I have spent almost two decades in this business for somebody to rubbish my efforts. I went there to talk to him more like a brother, but unfortunately what happened, happened.”
Continuing, Iyke said he didn’t behave like a mature and elderly colleague despite Madagwu’s libellous claims about him.
“Though many people blamed him for his actions, I also did not behave well as an older brother and a public figure. We have forgiven ourselves. I told him to use his talents positively. I decided to go on my own to register my displeasure about his actions towards me.”
Iyke reiterated that the incident wasn’t a stunt for his film. “It wasn’t a stunt for my forthcoming movie. Those people he is busy disparaging can turn around to assist him tomorrow.
“I am somebody’s father, husband, brother, uncle, and so on. I have so many people who are dependent on me. I have four companies with over 50 people working, directly and indirectly, it is not nice to bring down people for no reason,” he said.