‘I wore a pencil skirt to church, and an elderly woman said I will go to hellfire’ – Ariyiike Dimples

Media personality and Nollywood actress Ariyiike Dimples, whose name is Ariyike Owolagba, recounts experience that made her stop going to church during an interview on the Open Up podcast.

The thespian said she stopped going to church three years ago, and this is because a church elder told her she was going to “hell” for putting on a pencil skirt to church.

She went further to say church doctrines can be simplified and should be able to accept the younger ones without judgement.

“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.”

Ariyiike Dimples, however, added that she is still a practising Christian despite quitting church.