Actress Mercy Johnson recently displayed that when it comes to anger management, she is just as vulnerable as super model, Naomi Campbell.
While filming in Asaba, the Delta State capital recently, the actress lost her cool, seized a fan’s blackberry phone and smashed it!
The fan, a make up artiste on the set, was filming her while in action, acting a romantic scene.
The Eagle Online insiders who witnessed the shameful drama on the set of a movie by Amaco Brothers, entitled “In The Mind”, speaking on anonymity ground, said that all was well until a make up artiste on set, a female, obviously enthralled by the scene, decided to record her favourite star on her Blackberry phone, as she was acting a romantic scene.
The eyewitness disclosed that Johnson was in the thick of acting when she noticed the fan “make-up artiste” filming her with her blackberry phone.
She immediately jumped off set and charged at the make up artiste, slapped her across the face, grabbed her Blackberry phone and smashed it, shouting: “This is how it all begins. This is how it all begins. Before you know it they will start writing lies about me in the press!”
So angry was Mrs. Mercy Johnson Okojie that it took the entire cast to calm her down, while she only agreed to continue shooting on the condition that the said make up artiste be dismissed from the set.
“I am really shocked,” the said make up artiste cried as she sobbed obviously in shock at Mercy’s attack.
According to the fan as she nursed her injury: “I respect and love Mercy so much. She is my role model. I never believed she could get so angry and do such a terrible thing to me.”
Naomi Campbell had a similar experience after she threw her Blackberry phone at a maid who eventually sued her for assault.
A source, who witnessed what happened, said: “Mercy Johnson-Okojie, who reacted in a rather crude manner, should have been more civil in handling the matter.
“It was just enough to have reprimanded the make up artiste and demand that the images taken be deleted.
“But not slapping and smashing phones.
“A few questions that beg answers: Will she smash the image that was captured by the camera?
“Will she be there when the movie is edited?
“Can’t those images be captured then?
“The lady would have done it without those implied intentions, but it doesn’t make for the beast-like attitude Mrs. okojie displayed there.
“Mercy, a role model must contain her reaction. She could have asked that the phone be impounded and that the girl taken away from location.
“The girl behaved with impropriety, Mercy behaved liked a gutter chic.
“In civilised climes, she would be sued for daring to slap another person.
“Yes, the lady was wrong to have recorded the scene but she had no right to slap her! She should be sued.
“If it was in a more civilized society, she would be arrested for assault!
“By the time she spends one or two nights in jail, she would have learnt a valuable lesson.
“No one has the right to assault another human being, no matter the provocation.
“Mercy Johnson should take a queue from Naomi who got sued and paid the maid thousands outside court.
“It’s good to advice on anger management.
“However the make up Artiste is not justified, even though she did not know any better.
“But again, Mercy crossed the line for even going as far as smashing the girl’s phone.
“It tells a lot about her values and respect for the other persons.”