Tomi Adeyemi is a Nigerian-American author of the 2018 debut novel Children of Blood and Bone, now in headlines over on-set conditions of its film adaptation.
Tomi Adeyemi has shared on TikTok that filming for a Paramount adaptation of her novel was marked by severe distress. She says she left the set “hyperventilating and sobbing,” with witnesses present, and that she has faced ongoing antagonism behind the scenes. The author is not planning to discuss further details publicly.