Nollywood actress Adunni Ade has opened up about her childhood and the challenges that came with it.
She told Chude Jideonwo host of the talk series #WithChude that she doubted God’s existence because of what she went through.
Clips from the interview were shared on Instagram on Monday.
“I just felt broken, I felt everything was just negative and I was like ‘Is there really a God? Is there a God?!’
“Like why do I have to endure so much hurt, for what?!
“I’m a living 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?” she said.
The 33-year-old also opened up on her ordeal with some people in Nollywood.
“When I joined Nollywood, I knew I had to interact with people (which wasn’t my area of specialty due to a trauma I had encountered ) and over the years I would rather stay to myself than mingle which in turn some took as arrogance. Nevertheless, I found a balance to interact with people.
“I have been lied on, decasted and outcasted for standing my ground and not kissing behinds. My heart has been broken by those I extended help to, all in the name of friendship hence my One-Man-Mopol movement.
“At a point in time, I was that saving Grace cast you’d call last minute (I hated that) to get the job done which I would get done wholeheartedly. I have helped productions complete their films and still got my name rubbished. Some carted with my fee, some underpaid me, some tried not to pay and when I say pay me based on agreement, you wanna fight me?
“If you truly knew who your favs are, you’d run! But I guess it’s part of Life. You live and learn,” she said.
Born Adunni Adewale in Queens, New York to a Nigerian father and American-German mother, the actress studied accounting at the University of Kentucky.
She relocated to Nigeria in November 2013 and made her acting debut in the same year with the movie Iwo Tabi Emi by Saidi Balogun.
Adunni has two sons.
