South African social media apps were recently set alight with memes and jokes after media personality Lebo Keswa’s rant about her ex-wife, Letoya Makhene, went viral.
Speaking to News24 in July this year, Keswa accused Makhene of cheating, abuse and being a compulsive liar.
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“After I told my truth after I gave the interview (Sunday World), Letoya had just released an album. Instead of her just promoting her album, she’s dragging me into this thing, and Letoya is calling me an abuser when she knows that she is lying.
“That’s why she could never even open a case against me because Letoya has been abusing me in my marriage. She’s been abusing me, and she’s been getting away with it. I was too embarrassed to come out because I’m the butch in the relationship,” alleged Keswa.
Shortly after this, Keswa appeared on the Engineer Your Life Podcast and candidly discussed their marriage and blamed Makhene for causing its failure.
Snippets of the interview subsequently went viral, leaving Keswa the subject of intense social media trolling – something she later claimed to have been instigated by her PR team.
“The trolling was not happening much before the second podcast, right? So, my PR team was behind it. They started this trend of trolling because we knew that I was fighting a celebrity who’s got 2.5 million followers. So, there was nothing (I could do) to fight her; it still leaves a clean image from our side. So the first thing that you saw was by us. That was a plan from our side.”
Meanwhile, Letoya Makhene – who has been avoiding the discussion ever since it started – finally had something to say. Makhene sat down with Radio 2000 and claimed that everything Keswa has been saying so far is a lie.
According to her, there needs to be more consistency in Keswa’s story.
“If there were any truth, there would be consistency in her stories,” said Makhene. She also added how popular to what many may believe, she is in a great space right now, having escaped the darkest space of her life.
“Because I know the darkest space that I’ve managed to escape from, I am, right now, with all the noise happening around me, in one of my happiest spaces.”
She also took a moment to thank everyone who has offered her love and support during this time.
