Media personality and content creator, Gloria Olorunto, better known as Maraji, has disclosed that she and her family were involved in a car accident.
In a YouTube video, Maraji who has been off social media since June 2024 noted that the accident was the reason for her absence. She stated that the crash occurred after the family car spun severally before ending in a ditch on a day they were all returning from a church service.
She said
“If you have ever been in a car accident, you know it feels like you are in between life and death,”
“It feels like you could have just died.
“What even made it scary for me was the fact that everybody was in the car. My husband, myself, and my kids.
“We were coming back from church. It was just so scary and made me kind of think I could have just died.
“If I had died, all the work I have done would just go.
“What is the point of working so hard if you will not rest?
“And that made me appreciate life more and do what I love to do which is rest.
“I was shocked by the accident. We were just driving when a car hit us from the side and we were turning around.
“It was like a Nigerian film, it was crazy. The car was just going around and then we found ourselves in the ditch.
“I checked my kids and they were okay. Everybody was just fine, nobody had any injury.”
Maraji, a mother of two gained popularity in 2016 on social media for creating lip sync videos and miming popular songs. She is also known for hilarious skits, where she seamlessly switches roles, using various accents and vocal pitches to bring each character to life.
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