Nollywood actress Adesua Etomi, has explained how she endured poverty while growing up.
The award winning actress spoke about her career, family, and childhood with Ebuka Obi-Uchendu during the latest edition of “BlackBox”.
Etomi said many years ago after her mother travelled to the United Kingdom, she and her sister struggled with accommodation issues and had to stay with different relatives.
“We started off staying with dad’s sister, then dad’s brother, when those living situations didn’t work out, I stayed with my grandpa. When that didn’t work out, we moved to a property in a place called Jeba,” he said.
My sister and I started living alone. That was quite hard because we were very young. There are days when there’d be no food.
She explained how she and her sister, opted to fold them in an empty freezer as their apartment was stuffy.
There were so much stuff in the place and it was just a room and a parlour, we used to fold our clothes in an empty freezer because there was no wardrobe.
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We went through our share of tough times, and I think that’s part of the things that have shaped who I am right now. I’m grateful for that experience. I wouldn’t want any child to go through that because no child should have to go through it. But that was the situation we found ourselves and we made the best of it as much as we could.”
The mother of one said she later joined her mother in the United Kingdom when she was 14.
While in the UK, she had to stand up for herself to avoid being bullied.
“I was African, so the kids there would always tell me that, and they made it seem like something you should be ashamed. They tried to bully me but you can’t bully me,” the actress said.
“I stood up for myself. Bullying was quite a thing at the time. So you hear about lot of bullying stories.”
Tolulope Adesua Etomi-Wellington starred in her first feature film “Knocking On Heaven’s Door” in 2014. She won the Best Actress in a Drama award at the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards for her role in the 2015 romantic drama film “Falling”
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