“Anywhere my ex-husband saw me he would beat me.
“He beat me so much, I became an alcoholic - but I couldn’t leave because of the shame that people will say I couldn’t keep a man.”
For the first time on TV, veteran actor Ayo Adesanya - who was so big she was already lead star on Most Wanted, where Genevieve had her first minor role - finally speaks in detail about her abusive relationship that made her leave the industry for a very long time - and how she found the courage and the will to return to the industry and rebuild her career.
We also discuss:
- How she stayed in this relationship for 10 years
- How Bimbo Akintola and her other colleagues got angry because she couldn’t leave this man
- How her ex threatened to pluck out her eyes with a knife
- How he sent her son away to Ibadan at just 1 years old because he was jealous of the attention she was giving her son
- Why her next relationship didn’t work out
- Her long, hard journey back to Nollywood
All pain, the shame, the destruction and the recovery.
For the first time on TV, #WithChude.
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