“My husband and I didn’t have properties in our house because I would wreck it” -Chacha Eke
Following her struggle with Bipolar Disorder, Nollywood actress Chacha Eke Faani has become an ambassador for mental illness.
During one of her efforts to raise awareness about mental illness, the renowned screen diva recalled how she constantly destroyed things in her home.
The actress revealed that she and her husband had no property since she consistently destroyed things during her man!c episodes.
Chacha described a horrible incident that happened at the Rit Hotel in Enugu, when she broke everything, damaged the entire establishment, and reduced her family’s possessions to just what they were wearing.
She had the same scenario happen again two years later, which resulted in her being admitted in the hospital. There, she was eventually diagnosed and given medications, which she would always flush down the toilet.
“To be frank if the disorder that I have been battling with didn’t sufficiently disgrace me to the point that it has, chances are I won’t be here championing.
My psychiatrist was my biggest nightmare, I wish I could kill him because it was him for the first time after years of man!c episodes, after years of violence, it was from his mouth I heard the name of what was wrong with me and I was pained.
I had an ugly experience in Enugu in Rit Hotel where I smashed everything, wrecked the whole hotel, and reduced everything that my family had to only what we were wearing. I went untreated.
Two years after we came to Asaba, I had another man!c episode. This time I wrecked the whole house. It was a habit, at some point we didn’t have house properties because it was only a matter of months before I wreck it.
He took me to FDAH and after some days, he came and gave me the verdict, the diagnosis. I didn’t like taking drugs so I flushed them down the toilet when they discharged me. I had another relapse and they put me back in the hospital”.
