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The family of Constance Marten, a United Kingdom’s citizen and journalist, has accused the late Nigerian Pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua, better known as T.B. Joshua, of brainwashing her while she was in Nigeria, leaving her traumatised on return to UK.
Marten was said to have spent six months in Nigeria, during which she turned a disciple of the pastor in his sprawling evangelical church in Lagos State.
According to a family friend who spoke with DailyMail, Marten was previously brainwashed by the prophet after participating in a course on Christian life put together by the pastor in London. The friend requested the newspaper not to mention her name.
“She ended up becoming one of his disciples in Nigeria. I believe she got brainwashed while she was over there. The experience traumatised her,” she said.
“She was not the same person when she came back. She always used to be wild, but also happy, kind and buoyant. She was darker when she came back and she found things more difficult.
“She never told us what really happened. T B Joshua was a God-like figure. It was scary, and I believe it changed her. It was a huge part of her life.”
She stated further that Marten, who was fondly called Toots by her friends, “used to travel a lot from a young age but when she returned from Nigeria, there were strained relations with her family”.
