Nollywood director and producer, Biodun Stephen, has revealed why she gave up her acting career over her marriage.
In a recent interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, she narrated how she had met her husband and how she had initially wanted his brother instead of him, their struggles over money and her acting career.
Biodun said she had met her husband on a movie set in school dramas. She said however, her husband had refused bluntly about her acting career.
She said she had felt depressed at the beginning after several rejection from her husband. She revealed how she had prayed to God to take the talent away from her to reduce her aching heart whenever she sees people on the screen.
Going further, Biodun said unequal salaries with mounting needs had resulted in so many temptations but they prevailed.
She said they couldn’t afford their rent several times and someone who tried to help them had asked her to come to the hotel for a meeting and she had appeared with her husband.
Biodun said the movie ‘Glimpse’ is a true life story. She said, “Glimpse’ is a true life story. It was part of our own story. In our early years of marriage, we had this landlord from hell.
“In fact, it was the landlord’s girlfriend that was the one from hell. She would burst into the room and say, ‘Mummy Victoria, your rent is due.’
“We didn’t see where the money was coming from. There were so many choices. And I remember that conversation I had with someone who asked that I see him before helping us.
“At the time, my salary was N40,000, and my husband was earning N25,000 in a law firm. Altogether, it was N65,000, and we had a kid whose school fee was N80,000. So, it was a lot of temptation. It was tough.
“I remember when I went in for that meeting with that man, he said, ‘No problem, I will give you the money tomorrow.’ And I said, ‘Okay, I will come for it tomorrow.’ And then he called me and said, ‘I’m at this hotel, come and meet me.’ I was married with a three-year-old kid, and he wants me to meet him at a hotel because I have rent to pay.
“I told my husband that the man said I should come to a hotel to meet him. He said, ‘Let me drive you there.’ So, we walked into the hotel together, and the man said, ‘Ah ah! You came with your husband?’ I said, ‘Yes, he brought me.’ And the man said he forgot his chequebook. We drove back home crying. We had just three days until when the landlord’s girlfriend said she was coming.”
