How My Divorce Court Picture Was Leaked To The Public – Chika Ike

Nollywood actress, Chika Ike became the center of all attention recently when she brandished a 5million Naira haircut said to be her fee for shaving her hair in an upcoming film.

Were you really paid 5million Naira to cut off all your hair? Because some quarters have been suggesting otherwise.

Honestly, I was paid very well to cut my hair. I was not just paid 5million, but I was paid my artiste fee as well. And why not? I have grown my hair all my life and wouldn’t have cut it off for just anything. I was approached 3 years ago to do it but I turned it down because I wasn’t ready and I didn’t like the script. The same marketer approached me some months ago and I finally agreed to do it. So, yes I was paid that much.


One of your popular pictures online that drew some backlash is the one when you were in court for your divorce proceedings and you posed, all smiles. Do you wish you never took that picture?

Honestly I took that picture for personal reasons. I feel BBM should be private but unfortunately I have learnt that it isn’t. As an artiste, everyone wants to know your next move, your friends may even be the ones unwittingly helping put your stuff out. I put that picture as my display picture and the next thing I knew, it went viral. What can I do? The lesson I learnt was to slow down on things I do not want out there and be careful of what I post.

Fair enough. How would you respond to allegations of living above your means?

I feel that people should just learn to mind their business. If I want to buy a Phantom (car) today and go broke in the process, it is my business. Nobody is going to help me out right. Truth is artistes do some other things on the side. I run a business among other things. Nobody knows my source of income aside acting, I have friends and family, some abroad who give me gifts so there are lots of ways money comes in asides from acting that people don’t know because I don’t want it to be public. Even when you go for interviews at foreign embassies they ask you what other source of income you have because they know these things.

You have said you quit your marriage because it wasn’t working.  What exactly do you mean by ‘not working’?

Yeah it wasn’t working. Lets leave it at that. We are still in the process but hopefully the divorce will be finalized by the end of the year.

Do you think your getting married at a tender age or the nature of your profession contributed to it ‘not working’?

I don’t think so. In life things happen, people change. Yes age may play a factor because you can never be as wise as your mother but it cannot take the sole blame. For me happiness is all that matters and I deserve to be happy.