Popular Nollywood actress, Ronke Oshodi-Oke has aired her opinion on why marriages between celebrities fail. Her opinion is coming from the back of what she perceived as a misguided assertion about Nollywood being the main cause of the separations.
Ronke, who had an interview session with Sunday Scoop, iterated that an acting career has nothing to do with the success or failure of a marriage.
She then continued by saying, “There is nobody that is insulated from what’s happening in the society at large. Generally, there are many marriages that don’t last. I have seen someone that was married for just two years and she left the marriage. It is not because one is an actress or an actor that one’s marriage would scatter; it is because that’s what is ‘reigning’ for now. It takes true love for anybody to remain in a marriage when the two partners no longer have feelings for each other.”
Speaking on the claims that some of her colleagues have sex for money, Ronke said, “People who do such things would still do it even if they weren’t in the industry. It is because that is who they are. Even if they are in another industry, they would act that way. The president once said that Nigerian youths are lazy. And that’s because everybody, including me, wants free money. Everyone wants to reap from where they didn’t labour.”
On the downsides of pursuing a career in Nollywood, the 45-year-old actress said, “I wouldn’t say there are some things I don’t like about the industry because there are no jobs in Nigeria and this is the only opportunity many people have. I would have said the way people are coming into the industry is not the way they are supposed to, but people are just trying to make ends meet. We really cannot blame anybody.
“There are lawyers, doctors, engineers and other professionals among us who are supposed to be working in other fields. But when jobs are not forthcoming, they have no choice but to join Nollywood. Though I personally don’t like it, there is really nothing we can do about it.”
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