Saskay, a BBN reality TV star, has revealed why she ended the relationship with her former love interest, Cross Ikechukwu Okonkwo.
On Wednesday night, June 15, Saskay revealed this during the Shine Ya Eye Reunion, Day 10, (episode 10) on Shine Ya Eye. This came when Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, the show’s host, inquired if she and Cross were still friends. According to Saskay, the voice note of Cross making derogatory remarks about her remains was a big factor in her decision to avoid him.
She alleged that she broke up with Cross when a leaked voice note of Cross making disparaging remarks about her went viral. Cross was heard in the voice note indicating that he is no longer working with Saskay since she and her staff are manipulative.
Ebuka asked, “So, are you and Cross friends”? Saskay answered, “No”. Exactly, what then happened asked Ebuka
Saskay Response
“of course the conversation. So, I thought, why did the voice note sound like he was trying to make it look like, it’s okay being friends with me inside, but not wanting people outside to know we’re friends. Talking about me and my team being manipulative. She continued, I just felt weird that he came to meet me to apologize. But while he was talking, I realized he was apologizing for the conversation being leaked, not for what he said in the conversation”
And I told him, I said, I understand and I respect you, but this conversation had embarrassed me publicly and if you at least actually care, then you can say something publicly. I’m not saying you go out and write, ‘oh I’m sorry Saskay, I said this’, not necessarily, but at least, just say something publicly, and I told him that. And he just said okay, just kind of bossed it off, and that was it”.
When Ebuka approached Cross for his thoughts on the voice note, Cross explained that it was only after the voice note was posted online that he understood Saskay’s fans had set him up by phoning him and asking about Saskay and threatening him with a video of him at Saskay’s residence.
Cross claimed that he opened up in response to an inquiry from the lady on the phone about him surreptitiously visiting Saskay, when it was clear that Saskay had invited him for a conversation, which he accepted.
Cross revealed that he had long before cut ties with all of the Big Brother House’s relationships and had resolved to be alone.
Cross’s Response
Ebuka asked Cross “Was it also the voice note that changed the friendship”? Cross replied,
“Well, you people are really going deep, but it’s okay. The funny thing is that these fans find a way to get into people’s heads. They don’t understand that so many things are bigger than the whole thing. And they listen to them and they feel it. I‘m a very private person when I want to do my things”
“When I realized that you knew Saskay…, I didn’t know whether she had me recorded for whatever reasons. Cross continued. When we came out of the House, we were very cool. We talk and everything. I think when I even travelled I got a gift as well. So, because she told me she wanted to talk about something, badly, then I said okay when I get back, we will talk about it. I told her, let’s talk about it on the phone, she was like, no, she wants it when I get back home, from South Africa we will talk about it. I said okay, no problem”.
“Then, I got back, when I came back home, I saw her and for some reason, a lot of people were thinking we were involved, but we were not involved. Like, we were just friends. We were just literally friends, nothing. And people thought we were, and I was like okay, cool. So, I came, gave her a gift, gave her a hug, and that was it. We sat down and discussed, and then, I left the house”.
“All of a sudden, I heard that Cross was in Saskay’s house, having sex or doing rubbish and in my mind, I was like, wait, I don’t understand. I’ve never touched you, like anything, we were just friends. So, I was like okay cool, these people are using fans to be doing all sort of hanky panky stuff. Then I told them that things like this are not what excites me”.