Actress Dupe Jayesimi’s ‘sister’ calls her out following childlessness claims

• The actress shared her experiences of a failed marriage, being childless, and maintaining her belief in the possibility of having a child despite her age on a podcast.

• Tope Jayesimi criticized the actress’s claims during an interview, claiming that her elder sister was not entirely honest.

Veteran Nollywood actress Dupe Jayesimi gained significant attention this weekend after discussing her childlessness at the age of 60. A woman claiming to be her sister, Tope Jayesimi, has since publicly challenged her statements.

During a podcast appearance, the actress recounted her experiences with a failed marriage and her childlessness, expressing her belief that it is still possible for her to have a child despite her age.

In response to some of the actress’s assertions made during the interview, Tope Jayesimi implied that her elder sister was not completely truthful.

In a video circulating on social media, Tope criticized the actress for claiming that the children she raised did not support her as they reached adulthood, despite being aware of her childless status.

Tope questioned how Dupe could have raised them when they all lived together in their grandmother’s house in Ibadan during their childhood.

According to the younger Jayesimi, Dupe never regarded her and her siblings as family or children; rather, she treated them poorly, believing they would not achieve anything significant.

She said, “How did you raise us? We baba’s children that also makes you bear the Jayesimi name. How did you take care of us then? You know that till now that you’re speaking on this program, you never saw us as your relatives, never saw us as your siblings or as your children.

“If you saw us as your children and counted us as your siblings, this is me Tope talking on behalf of everybody, that you saw me Tope, Adeoluwa, Biodun, Esther, that you saw us as your siblings or your children, you won’t come to social media to say all these things you said. But one thing I always say is there are always repercussions for actions.

“That they brought us to you to care for us and you thought you could maltreat us because you thought we would never amount to anything. Can you see the result? You thought we would be nobodies.”

Tope additionally asserted that the actress regarded the younger individuals as her servants, compelling them to clean her underwear stained by menstruation.

She said, “Can you remember that time at home, I would be the one to wash your menses pants, when you want to eat, we behave like your househelps in the house where we all lived together, that almost every month when you go for shows, whenever you come back, fear would grip us.

“You have forgotten how you raised us. When our father died, what did you do to us? How did you raise us? We are now people today.”

Tope further alleged that the actress deceived her siblings regarding their deceased father’s inheritance, claiming that she sold the acres of land he bequeathed to support their education and retained the profits for her own benefit.

“Please help us ask her, our father’s land that was meant to be used to train us to school, please what happened to the land after relatives took her to the police that time? She sold the hectares of land, this same Aunty Dupe sold everything.

“All our late father’s entitlements as a professor in Ajayi Crowther University, she was the one who collected everything. You have brought this matter to the public, a lot is on ground,” Tope said.

The Nollywood actress is yet to react to the allegations.