She is back ya'll and with babe in arms, two-week old baby boy Sinclair Timberlake. She looks calm and happy, none of that distant blank look she had when the good girl we had grown to love as the face of KTN news turned bad right before our eyes. No thanks to the pint-sized Jazzman turned pastor Joseph Hellon.
Esther Arunga is back, with a bagful of regrets. She says her biggest regret was meeting the curly-kitted Hellon and joining his cult, The Finger Of God. We called Mr and Mrs Timberlake and they were more than ready to break down all the madness they subjected Kenyans to last year, especially after Hellon went on national TV last weekend and called Timberlake a con.
Arunga met Hellon almost two years ago after some friends told her of his profound bible knowledge and she joined Finger of God where she started heading WATTA (Way To The Altar) after which she claims he put her under a spell.
"I joined Finger of God while I was still at KTN and I felt like I was doing God's work and that is why I defended him the way I did," she says. "He was the one who ordered me to date and marry Wilson Malaba whom I later found was not as straight as I thought and ditched him."
She says she moved in with Hellon and his wife because she was always doing church work and had planned to leave after a year and it was while there that he took control of her life.
"He turned me against my parents, ordered me to sue them and so many things and I did them because I was under his spell and didn't know what I was doing," she said. "He was also demanding that he be the one to name my baby!"
"I only have one regret, ever meeting Joseph Hellon and all I can ask Kenyans is to forgive me and my husband, we did not know what we were doing and we are very sorry," says Arunga.
She did not meet Timberlake through Hellon she clarified, saying they met in Sydney in 2003 and when they met last year, their friendship took off where they had left and decided to get married.
Their marriage certificate shows the two were married by Joseph Hellon at the Finger of God ministries on February 9, 2010. According to Timberlake, the two decided to break ties with Hellon and the Finger of God last November, after they noticed that he was not as clean as he wanted them to believe.
"I would want to ask Kenyans not to attend that church, it is a brothel, the things that go on in that church are shocking," says Timberlake.
Asked why they acted like his stooges the whole of last year, Timberlake says it was because he blackmailed them until they decided to leave in November and they are currently looking for a church.
At the moment, they are trying to give their son a normal upbringing and shelter him from all the chaos that have become their lives.