In 2001, at an audition in Calabar, she met Jeta Amata.[3] Two years later when she was 18, they began dating. They married in 2008 and their daughter Veno was born later that year. In 2013, they separated and in 2014 they divorced.
Amata lives between Los Angeles and Lagos. People thought she had gone missing, but she later came out to debunk the news on social media.[4]