Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke has confessed to planning a nasty fight with fellow actor, Uche Maduagwu for attention.
According to him, it was a stunt to promote his movie titled, Bad Comments.
In August 2021 Iyke was caught in a viral video assaulting Maduagwu for allegedly calling him a fraudster and ritualistic on social media.
The video showed Jim Iyke being held by several people to prevent him from further assaulting Maduagwu who was trying to explain himself. Iyke in the process kicked Uche on his chest.
But several months after the incident he has come to say it wasn’t real. They acted it out.
“It was orchestrated. I wanted them to paint a picture of what it is like in the social media ecosystem. I can orchestrate anything and you would perceive it. It is about perception,” he said in an interview with Chude Jideonwo
“That would show you that, that world is so real. There is nothing that exists in that world. I called the man, we had an understanding, paid very well for it, wrote the script, called Moses in and we shot it,” he revealed.
“I’m about to release the ending of it. I cannot be that stupid. I can never make that mistake. I even called my sister the day before we shot it and said it would backfire and she said no it won’t.”
Iyke said he had already spent twenty-five million naira on publicity for the movie which didn’t give the necessary results until the now-famous video.