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Nollywood actor, Okechukwu Joseph, has recounted his aborted relationship with legendary actress, Genevieve Nnaji.
Joseph said
his relationship with Ms. Nnaji was very short, although he never disclosed
this to the media.
The
‘Karishika’ actor further told the Sun that his relationship with the star
actress was a disaster.
Joseph said,
“My very short relationship with Genevieve was such a disaster. This is the
first time I am admitting this publicly.
“Genny and I
met and became friends on the set of Mark of the Beast. Of course in her very
early days. It was as though we were in some type of experiment.
But I learned
a lot about her within that short period.
“Two
unforgettable moments- the day she introduced her little brother to me and the
day she told me literally everything about herself. She trusted me that much.
My mind was racing like crazy and I kept wondering how so little people knew
about this young Amazon who was out to play the Esther for her family and did
she? She felt like family to me.
She is my kind of woman – classy, clean and
confident.
“Unfortunately,
we couldn’t go further because of my funny little ‘my celibacy lifestyle’ secret.
Not that she
solicited or asked for anything but of course, my body language was downright
repulsive to that effect and it didn’t take anything for any woman with brains
to figure it out.
She was so full of pragmatic energy and so on-the-go- like
woman on a mission.
Never ready to play around with stuff she couldn’t put up
with.
I hope she’s still that way.
She has got an incredible story to her
glory.”
On if he would
take things to the ‘next level’ if he had another opportunity with Genevieve,
Joseph said, “I don’t know what you mean by ‘the next level.’
But I would love
to play by my rules book at this moment.
However, there is not going to be any
such opportunity.
The young woman has moved on ever so predictably and I’m the
happiest for her.”
The actor said
he had difficulties in getting along with his colleagues, especially females
because of his celibacy lifestyle.
He said, “I
had no difficulty mingling. What I had issues with was entangling- copulating.
And like I said earlier, I wasn’t ready because of my celibacy nature and I didn’t
want to tell anybody.
I was always making excuses about why I couldn’t ‘get
down.’”
He went
further to say some of his female colleagues solicit for getting down with him during
shooting.
He said,
“Truth is a lot of people didn’t know that all that while that I was shooting
movies everywhere I was still that pure! I didn’t know how to explain this to
ladies especially.
People thought I had other strange feelings.
“One of my
directors even confronted me at some point wanting to know if I was hiding some
ailment.
It was on the set of this director that two young women attempted to
assult me in my hotel room.
I will never forget this; It was Singapore Hotel,
Ikeja, where we lodged.
The movie was Karishika 2; We had returned from a shoot
so I left my door open.
They came in, stripped themselves halfway and pounced
on me.
I fought with them for nearly 25 minutes; They gave up when I threatened
to stab them.
I lied that I had a knife; That was probably the third time that
I had had that kind of experience.
“They were
upcoming artistes. They were also part of that movie.
Everybody else was fair
game, but I was ‘forming superman’ so I could understand their frustration. And
they were a crazy bunch. You don’t come across girls like that every day,
whether in Nollywood or elsewhere.
It was something else,” he added.
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