Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe, has revealed how she had almost dropped the idea of acting over a sexual assault.
The actress in an interview on ‘Your View’ with Morayo Afolabi-Brown, said a movie producer had made advances at her during an audition at the peak of her career.
She said she had completed her audition and had passed but she was given a role different from what she auditioned for.
Mercy stated that she had confronted the producer for the switch in the role but the man had tried to touch her inappropriately. She said she had torn the script and walked away.
“I met a producer in Surulere, and I expressed to him how much I would love to act. He told me he had an upcoming film and invited me to his office for an audition in his office.
“After I had passed three stages of the audition, I was given a minor role, which I told him that was not the character I was auditioning for, and he replied that the director said he did not know me, and that was why he wanted me to be close to him.
“He then stood up to touch me. I was very upset and I thought if that was what it took to be an actress, I don’t want to be an actress anymore.
“I tore the script and left. I cried on my way going home because I left a well paying job to join Nollywood, and I was already a single mother at the time,” she said.
