Comedian Teju Babyface has recounted how people assumed he relocated to the United States because his career was over.
He spoke in a recent interview with QEDNG publisher Olumide Iyanda, recalling an article written some time ago which was titled ‘Teju Babyface seeks greener pastures in the US’.
The king of talk, as he is fondly called, said he got stuck in the United States due to COVID-19 and he then decided to bring his family along for security reasons.
“There’s no promised land without passing through the wilderness,” he said.
“At the very least because you roll in the same circle that we all roll in you might have sat, maybe one time, in a circle where they might have mentioned me and mentioned the fact that my career was dead or on its way to dying.
“That is because you don’t take two, three years off entertainment and go to the United States and have no consequences. So there was a time when it seemed I was finished.”
Speaking further on the article written about him, Teju Babyface noted that the writer said his relocation to the US “may not be unconnected to his inability to make headway in his career.”
The 45-year-old said he could now laugh about the article but that at the time it was written it affected him as he was facing what he described as “existential crisis”.
