Erica Nlewedim, BBNaija 2020 housemate says she found her dad through social media.
It is no news that BBNaija 2020 housemate, Erica was raised by her mom alone. She shared with her fellow housemates that her dad was not a part of her life and she only met him a few years ago.
This evening while in a mock diary session with Wathoni as her Big Brother, she shared a more personal story about her relationship with her dad.

Erica Nlewedim said she found her father through social media. According to her, a lady messaged her on Instagram saying that they shared a surname and looked alike too.
The lady asked her father’s name and confirmed from her father that they were indeed related and Erica’s father was her uncle. The newly found cousin helped Erica get her father’s number and that was how she
What Erica felt was just a coincidence and an opportunity to make a new social media friend turned out to be the experience that changed her whole life.
Erica mentioned that she had been searching for her father since she was 15 and found him only 3 years ago when she was 23.
On how she felt the first time she spoke to her Dad , the BBNaija 2020 housemate said she was nervous at first but when she found out that he was not surprised he has a child and in fact, he was in Rivers state all this while. Erica said she felt a rush of emotions at the point mostly anger and ended up being rude to him.
When asked who she felt the need to forgive she also said her dad because although they are friends, she always has mixed feeling whenever she speaks to him. However, her way of dealing with that was to not expect much from him to avoid disappointments.


She ended her session by thrashing out talking about the issues she had with Wathoni and extending the olive branch which Wathoni couldn’t accept or reject because she was acting the role of Big Brother.