Nollywood actress cum media personality, Ariyike Owolagba, popularly known as Ariyiike Dimples, has recalled a frustrating experience that made her quit church.
Bellnews reports that Ariyiike Dimples, in an interview on the ‘Open Up’ podcast, said she had stopped going to church for three years after a church elder questioned her fashion sense.
The thespian said the elderly woman told her she would go to hell for wearing a pencil skirt to church.
According to her, the woman considered the dressing to be indecent.
Ariyiike Dimples, however, added that she is still a practising Christian despite quitting church.
She said, “In my community church, you see only elderly people. You barely see the young ones. The young ones have gone to other churches. It was too serious. Yes, you can have your doctrines, but there is a way you can simplify it for young people and take them in without judging them.
“The reason I stopped going to church was because I wore a pencil skirt to church and an elderly woman said I will go to hell fire. I was shocked and felt wrongly judged so I stopped going to church for 3 years. And thankfully, I was already out of my parents’ house.
“The woman reported me to my dad. I had to take picture of the skirt and send to my mum to prove that I wasn’t dressing indecently. But my dad believed in the ideology of a community raising a child. So, I chose to avoid the community church so that they won’t see me.”