The actress has been through a lot recently, but no one can dim her light. There have been accusations that she has lost her mansion, and she has been linked to death hoaxes at different times.
Speaking to TshisaLIVE the actress reiterated that she did not lose her home, but sold it.
“I think some journalists should be sued for stupidity and lack of conclusive research. I sold my house, which was being rented during Covid-19, after the pandemic. I was not living in Jo’burg. I was living in Kimberley at the time I sold the house. I needed to get rid of the house,” she said.
This comes within a few days of Sunday World reporting that Mercantile Bank had sold her home for failure to pay her monthly installments.
According to the publication, the former Generations actress apparently failed to keep up with R22 347 the monthly mortgage of her R2.2 million home and her bond was apparently in arrears of more than R80 000. Sophie slammed insensitive journalists and said being labeled ailing has affected her business and her children need her.
“It doesn’t matter how high or low powered you are. It does not give you the right as a journalist to write a mockery about a person who has trended for years, who has had many obituaries written about her, a person who every day wakes up and struggles with a killer disease that is diabetes. I’m a single mother and my children need me, I don’t need the stress,” she said.
“I have lost everything before. Whatever she is talking about is nothing. I was sick for two full years and lost everything. You’re not going to take my kid’s livelihood because you want to make a quick buck. It is a sign of desperation.”
Sophie said what she is most grateful for is life. “Hope has kept me going. I go to my balcony every morning and say thank you to God for life. He gave me a second chance when I probably didn’t deserve it. I don’t know what I did to be attacked left, right and centre but what I know is that the fact that I’m still here, I’ve got the willpower to fight for survival.”