Former “Bachelor” star Onyeka Ehie has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. And the story she’s telling on TikTok isn’t just a breakup saga; it’s a deep dive into the financial fallout she says she’s still recoveing from.
Ehie’s multi-part series, dubbed “The Danish Deception,” lays out what she describes as a three-year relationship built on lies, fabricated royalty, and a mounting trail of debt. Ehie was a contestant on the 23rd season of “The Bachelor” and eliminated in week 5. She returned for the 6th season of “Bachelor in Paradise.”
The Lagos, Nigeria-born and Houston-raised Ehie met her Danish love on one of her international trips — at a beach club in Hvar, Croatia, while on vacation — in June 2022. Beneath the romance, lavish European trips, and whirlwind wedding in 2024, Ehie says she was pulled into a financial sinkhole that wound up leaving her, her family, and even her friends out of tens of thousands of dollars.
According to Ehie, the trouble began small, just a few thousand here, a quick reimbursement there, until the loans to her husband grew from $6,000 to $18,000 and eventually escalated into credit card charges and wire transfers she says she never fully authorized. By her count, the debt stack grew every time her then-husband, Martin Fredsgaard Andersen, claimed a crisis: a friend who needed an investment boost, a debt he needed to clear, or personal funds allegedly frozen by Danish tax authorities.
Ehie says the financial strain got even worse after she quit her six-figure accounting job at his encouragement. With her income gone, she claims Andersen promised to take over their expenses, only for her to discover that his money troubles were far deeper than she realized. His supposed royal lineage and Olympic handball career, she later learned through a private investigator, were fabrications. So were promises of financial stability. Yet when she finally checked his bank account he had just 34 cents.
Now she claims Andersen relapsed into a gambling addiction, an addiction she said she was unaware of. He took money from everyone around her. One close friend, she says, loaned him $200,000 for what he pitched as a “crypto investment,” money she says was never returned. Ehie also alleges that he racked up an additional $7,000 on her credit card during another gambling binge. Their divorce was finalized on Nov. 4. She says he asked for the divorce, against her wishes.
Her TikTok series has gotten thousands of views but also backlash, much from Black American women and African women who say her story doesn’t add up. They question why Ehie, who today is a real estate agent in Dallas, never checked his claim of royal heritage or his Olympic background. The accuse her of being blinded by the desire to have a white husband, something she had denied. But one thing that seems for sure is the whirlwind romance was extremely costly.
