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Former Kiss TV host Angeline Wanjeri has shared experience with dating apps.
The soft-spoken host says she would take loans on her household items, to enable her to get through.
In an interview with Lynn Ngugi, Wanjeri says she lost 2 fridges and 2 TVs in the process and her phone, which the loan sharks sold to recover their money.
At the time she was living alone after he dad bought her an apartment after constantly being unable to pay rent for the house she was previously living in.
“I had never budgeted because my dad had always provided for me.
I was very irresponsible
My dad then bought me an apartment after seeing how much I was struggling. At that time is when I started using loan apps.”
Why did she not ask her family for help?
“I was so ashamed because every time I needed help I would call my dad and he would help.
I wanted him to feel like I was now responsible. My salary was at the time very little.
My behavior was not changing, I remember I once paid 25K on perfume yet I had not paid my bills.
I had almost 12 loan apps.”
Wanjeri says Covid also saw their salaries slashed and this pushed her further into debt.
“When Covid happen our salaries were slashed, and things became heavy. I found a loan on Items Guy.
I would take photos of items and send them on Whatsapp, and he would tell you the value, give you the loan and when paying back you pay interest.
One time my house was very empty, I would go on TV, make people laugh and I would go back home to an empty house. It became a toxic cycle,
The loan shark would call people close to me and tell them That I owe them. They texted and called people in my office, my siblings, and friends.
Sometimes my phone would ring more than 100 times in a day.”
After the ‘threats’ and intimidations became too much, Wanjeri started re-evaluating her choices.
It is then she decided to quit her job at Kiss TV, at the time her dad was forced to pay off her debts.
She went off the radar for two years, a period she terms as a ‘healing’ period.