Nigerian actress, Chioma Toplis, has revealed that she will not attend her father’s funeral when he passes on.
Toplis revealed this in reaction to a tweet made by a lady simply identified as @Jayritse. The tweet read,
“My father was an elder in the church, a proper elder. That was at church. At home, he was a wife-beater. He once beat my mom with a wooden plank with nails, tore her arm too, with blood and all. He died nine years ago. I still haven’t cried. Thanks, everyone, she left him before he passed on. She’s thriving now.”
Toplis commented on the lady’s post on Instagram, saying,
“I thought we were the only ones that have a useless father. He is an elder in the church too. We are in the same boat; my mother left my father too for many reasons ranging from laziness, lousiness, cheating, senselessness, foolishness, beating; in fact, (he is) everything bad. Do you know what? She is the WINNER for leaving alive. I grew up wondering what the hell made my mother marry such an awful man.”
She continued, “I won’t even attend his burial even if I am in Nigeria, talk more of crying. The most interesting part is none of my siblings will either, except my brother, the first son, just to fulfill the native and custom law.”
The actress further revealed that when her father dies, his burial will be nothing to write home about. She said,
“Yes, he will (definitely) die before us because he came to this world before us! His burial will be nothing to write home about. Just open the ground and throw him in at the corner of our house beside the garden. Oh yes, that is where he belongs. Of course, he knows this already.”