Actress Adunni Ade was recently a guest on journalist Chude Jideonwo’s show “With Chude”. In the interview, the fair-skinned actress recounted her childhood in Nigeria, which she described as the darkest moments of her life.
“I grew up without my mum. My mum was not in my life since I was a little girl. I was raised by my dad, his family, tossed here and there…step mum. It wasn’t the best, let me just put it that way, jumping from one family member to the other,” she said.
My dad is my everything. He was doing everything he could to create a name for himself, his business, his work, and I guess, you know.”
“I hope I’m not being mean by saying Nigerian men, they can’t really… single father, can’t really just take care of their child, so they have to put the child here and put the child there.”
“He was doing all this to provide for me. It was a really dark period growing up here. I remember more hurt than I remember of happiness. So when I left Nigeria after secondary school to meet my mum, that was always my dream to be with my mum, I did not realise the damage my not being with her had caused her.”
She said living with her mother was not the happy ending she envisaged as they could not bond properly.
“She was fighting her own demons and we were just clashing. I just did not feel the love and care I should have had from a very young age,” she added
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Ade said all of it went on to affect her relationship with the father of her children
“I then met my ex, the father of my children and it wasn’t the best of situation. We were together for 8-9 years. That was another dark period if not darker than what I experienced here in Nigeria. I just felt that I wasn’t happy at all. I just felt broken.”
“Everything was just negative. I started to ask if there really a God? Why do I have to endure so much hurt? I’m a loving person, I’m a kind person, I can give you the shirt off my back so to say, so why do I have to experience so much pain?”
Adunni Ade is born to a German-Irish mother and a Nigerian, Yoruba father. She worked in Housing and Insurance in the United States before delving into modeling; appearing in an edition of America’s Top Model.
She however moved to Nigeria to join the entertainment industry landing her first role in the Yoruba language film. “You or I” in 2013. She’s since become a household name in Nigeria’s movie industry.
She’s mother to two young sons; D’Marion and Ayden Young.
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