Lindiwe, a.k.a. DJ Nomvelo Makhanya, a former actress on e.TV Scandal!, has spoken out after departing the programme. The actress said she was fired from the show because she had chosen to report her director and floor manager for intoxication on set in an interview with the Access Genie podcast.
” I was written off a week and a half after I had reported them and I got called into the office. The news was delivered to me, and it was made to seem like I was the one with the problem. Like I was the one with the issues. But I took it like a champ and held my head high,” she said.
made her life at work miserable Makhanya claims that the final few months she spent working on the job were quite difficult.
” I stopped vlogging for my YouTube channel because I would be told that I am wasting production’s time. [And they claimed] that they constantly had to wait for me, which was untrue. They found little things just to make it seem like it was a problem.
“Even with live videos on my Instagram promoting the show, I stopped doing that. I stopped because it was like I was wasting their time and that was new.”
Makhanya claimed that the individuals she had reported had started chatting about her going away in the hallways. People in positions of authority frequently want to demonstrate to you that they are in control. And they want to make sure you suffer when you start calling them out on their bullsh*t.
I was temporarily placed on a redlist. That implies that you are not being employed. They’ve been taught your identity, so they know it even before you arrive. It’s a power thing, and they wanted to show that they are greater than me and that they formed me.” Having recovered and moved on She claimed that because of her savings, she was not negatively impacted monetarily. But her severe anxiety drove her to consider suicide.
“I had severe anxiety and was very suicidal right after losing my work. Thus, I would continually hear voices in my head telling me that I deserved it. For ten years, I devoted so much of my time and myself to that show. “However, the odd thing is that I now earn a lot of money outside of acting.” The actress claimed that in order to get to where she is now, she has undergone extensive therapy and healing over the last 18 months.