The actress and style icon has asked media houses to stop sharing footage that reportedly features one of her minor children, saying the matter is now before the authorities.
Actress and fashion personality Nana Akua Addo has spoken publicly for the first time about videos circulating on social media that appear to show a domestic dispute involving her and her children, saying the footage was put out without her knowledge or permission.
In a statement issued through her lawyers and dated 6 October 2026, she rejected any suggestion that she released the material herself. The statement, reported by Adom Online, says the videos and photographs were leaked.
Concern over a minor child
The central worry raised in the statement is privacy. Some of the circulating videos reportedly show one of her children, who is a minor. On that basis, she has appealed to media houses to stop publishing, reproducing or resharing the clips.
She described the matter as deeply sensitive and said the family is already carrying the trauma of the incident itself, without the added pressure of having private moments spread across social media timelines.
Case before the authorities
Nana Akua Addo also disclosed that the matter is before the appropriate authorities and is sub judice. That is a legal term meaning a case is currently under consideration by a court or an investigating body, and commenting publicly on the details can interfere with the process.
For that reason, she asked the public to allow the relevant procedures to run their course. She said she would speak to the substance of the dispute and the videos at a later, more appropriate time.
She thanked the Ghana Police Service, the country's main law enforcement agency, for what she called timely intervention, and said she has confidence in the courts to handle domestic violence matters.
Why this matters
Ghana's domestic violence cases are often litigated first on social media before they reach a courtroom, and that pattern creates real risks: for the privacy of children, for the fairness of any eventual trial, and for the willingness of other victims to come forward at all.
The appeal from Nana Akua Addo's lawyers is essentially a request that the public treat the online footage as evidence in a live matter rather than entertainment. Ghanaian law provides protections for children involved in legal proceedings, and media houses face reputational and legal exposure when they publish identifiable images of minors in such circumstances.
For Ghanaians abroad, where clips of this kind spread quickly through WhatsApp groups and diaspora pages, the request applies the same way. Resharing a leaked video adds to its reach regardless of where the person pressing forward is sitting.
No details have been made public about what stage the case has reached, which court or agency is handling it, or whether any charges have been filed. Nana Akua Addo has not named any other party in her statement.
