Top bilingual Nollywood actor, Yemi Solade, in a recent interview with revealed some facts on his failed marriages and new wife.
See the appropriate part of the interview below:
Q.:
Before you got married to your current wife, you’ve already experienced
two failed marriages. What were the experiences like and why did you
choose to get married the third time?
You
see, when certain things are not meant to be, there is no amount of
work you put into that will work. I was finding my bearing, I wasn’t
stable. It was a lot difficult to run a home. But at the appointed time,
I am speaking spiritually now, when God said, you are looking for a
wife and you, you need a husband, okay, I give you this person and that
was God who did it for me and that is why it is working.
When
I met her, it was her beauty that attracted me to her, I like every
good thing of life, my wife is beautiful, I said half caste, but I was
afraid to talk to her because I don’t have that kind of money she may
want, but when I summoned the courage to approach her, she shocked me
with her simplicity and humility and we became friends and later got
married.
Q.:
A handsome man like you is presumed a ladies’ man, what were your
experiences with female admirers back then in your school days and now?
Back
then in school, I used to travel out of school with girls, I remember
when I was in part one in the university, my father brought police to
arrest a lady I was staying in her house.
I started having girlfriend at the age of 13; older girls had taught me something about sex as young as I was then.
Q.:
I just received a phone call on your behalf from a girl who is trying
to date you. Is this what you encounter all the time and how do you
manage it?
I
enjoy it, you see when they call and tell me they like me I enjoy it,
and I try to be civil with it because I know they like what I do and
admire me, that is why they call me to tell me this. That person that
calls might be somebody who may be useful in other areas, apart from
sleeping with each other. I try to be calm and be civil, but when I
realise this person is going too far. I will cut off the conversation.
Q.: Apart from take home packages, what are the other challenges you face as an actor?
Well,
I will say my privacy is being infringed upon. By the time one gets to a
certain stage in one’s career and becomes famous, one’s privacy becomes
mortgaged. But I still manage in my own way to be myself, I still go
into the buka to eat and if I feel like peeing by the roadside I come
out of my car and pee, this is the social content you find in Nigeria. I
am not one of those actors that will tell you they can’t buy roasted
plantain again. For me, I don’t suffer such. I am just myself. The other
challenge is the area boys and the touts who will tell you that they
buy all your movies and therefore you need to “settle” them every time
they see you around. That alone pisses me off because I am not a
producer, I buy these movies too. But there is nothing we can do about
this. We would have to co-exist.
Source:
-- DAILY STAR
source: pulse.ng
