{"id":235373,"date":"2025-09-04T17:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/wumi-toriola-admitted-in-hospital-after-online-backlash\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:20:50","slug":"wumi-toriola-admitted-in-hospital-after-online-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wumi-toriola-admitted-in-hospital-after-online-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Wumi Toriola Admitted In Hospital After Online Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<h2>Nollywood actress <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/naijanews.com\/topic\/wumi-toriola\">Wumi Toriola<\/a> has been admitted in the hospital following intense backlash online.<\/h2>\n<p><strong> Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that the criticism came after she responded to comments made by veteran actor and director Afeez Owo about a character she played in a recent movie.<\/p>\n<p>Afeez Owo, who is married to actress Mide Martins, had shared his view on Wumi\u2019s role during an interview.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3 ai-track\" data-ai=\"WzMsMCwiSXNhYWMiLCIiLDRd\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd3GiRw0g6bOS3kAtHb1Yhc5Jic6iTkM9pA5DhIB13uZgDpGQ\/viewform?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=102633326415294296882\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Wumi reacted publicly, <strong>disagreeing with his remarks. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her response sparked widespread criticism from social media users and some fans who agreed with Afeez\u2019s assessment.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, Wumi revealed that the pressure from the online reactions affected her health, leading to her hospitalisation.<\/p>\n<p>She shared a photo from her hospital bed and described the experience as being closely connected to the stress of Internet attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Wumi asked her followers for their well-wishes and promised to handle things differently in the future.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote: <em>\u201cInternet dragging and ICU are siblings. <\/em><em>I have heard you all, will do better next time. Wish me quick recovery.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abia Radio News<\/strong> recalls that Toriola\u00a0slammed a senior colleague in the movie industry over his recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>Wunmi\u2019s outburst comes after veteran actor, Afeez Owo, spoke about their strained relationship in a YouTube podcast \u201cBehind The Fame \u2013 African List.<\/p>\n<p>Afeeze had mentioned during the interview that he was no longer close to Wunmi, unlike in her early days in the film industry, when they would usually write scripts together and produce movies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 4 --><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span class=\"copyright\"><strong>\u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of  Tee Global Innnovations  [abiaradios@gmail.com].  [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nollywood actress Wumi Toriola has been admitted in the hospital following intense backlash online. Abia Radio News reports that the criticism came after she responded to comments made by veteran actor and director Afeez Owo about a character she played in a recent movie. Afeez Owo, who is married to actress Mide Martins, had shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":235374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[1898],"class_list":["post-235373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-wumi-toriola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/FotoGrid_20250904_164717362-1000x600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}