{"id":680627,"date":"2019-08-14T07:08:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T07:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The mother of contortionist Wendy Waeni has now come clean and admitted to receiving 'small' amount of money from her daughter's former manager Joe Mwangi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data"},"modified":"2019-08-14T07:08:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T07:08:47","slug":"kenya-fresh-twist-as-wendys-mother-admits-to-receiving-money-from-ex-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/14\/kenya-fresh-twist-as-wendys-mother-admits-to-receiving-money-from-ex-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Fresh Twist as Wendy&#8217;s Mother Admits to Receiving Money From Ex-Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The mother of contortionist Wendy Waeni has now come clean and admitted to receiving &#8216;small&#8217; amount of money from her daughter&#8217;s former manager Joe Mwangi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In an interview with Radio Jambo on Monday, Magdaline Syombua said Wendy&#8217;s former manager used to give her amounts of Sh20, 000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;Walikuwa wanatembelea watu wakubwa wakubwa wanapata kile wanapata pale na mimi ananipatia kitu kidogo. Ananipatia kidogo kama elfu ishirini,&#8221; she said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Ms Syombua quickly added that she tolerated Joe Mwangi&#8217;s role because she wanted a good future for her daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">SOCIAL MEDIA UPROAR<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">There has been a social media uproar since last week after Wendy appeared on the Jeff Koinange Live show where she claimed of being exploited by her former manager despite her global acclaim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">She claimed Mr Mwangi did not share the money generated from her talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">The Directorate of Criminal Investigation has launched investigations into allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Wendy and her mother live in a single room in Huruma, with her mother selling sweets and cigarettes to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">In her Monday&#8217;s interview, Wendy&#8217;s mother revealed that Mr Mwangi contacted her after Wendy&#8217;s allegations and apologized for everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">He allegedly wanted them to resolve the matter and continue working together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Wendy and her mother are however not interested in working with him anymore.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.story-footer-link--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of contortionist Wendy Waeni has now come clean and admitted to receiving &#8216;small&#8217; amount of money from her daughter&#8217;s former manager Joe Mwangi. In an interview with Radio Jambo on Monday, Magdaline Syombua said Wendy&#8217;s former manager used to give her amounts of Sh20, 000. &#8220;Walikuwa wanatembelea watu wakubwa wakubwa wanapata kile wanapata [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":672529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya: Fresh Twist as Wendy&#039;s Mother Admits to Receiving Money From Ex-Manager - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/14\/kenya-fresh-twist-as-wendys-mother-admits-to-receiving-money-from-ex-manager\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya: Fresh Twist as Wendy&#039;s Mother Admits to Receiving Money From Ex-Manager - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The mother of contortionist Wendy Waeni has now come clean and admitted to receiving &#8216;small&#8217; amount of money from her daughter&#8217;s former manager Joe Mwangi. 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