By Rita Chioma

I have been very busy, working and doing a lot of productions. It has been really great so far. I have also taken out time to do some of my personal projects involving my foundation. We have gone to several schools, taking out the messages against domestic violence and abuse.  Some company endorsed me this year, so I’d be going to a lot of schools to do some stuffs for them.  In all, 2016, has been so awesome.

Well, I have not had any personal experience but I have some university days based experiences.

I have lots of friends, who were killed during domestic violence. The more I get involved in spreading the message against such, the more I get more personal with it.

I have met a lot of victims. When I see them in such a pitiable state, it gets to me so much that I just want to do more.

Yes, I have. But there’s still a lot of stigmatization that victims of domestic violence go through. Our campaign is trying to put an end to people keeping quiet. We are encouraging them to speak out against all forms violence, be it rape, abuse, etc. We want them to come out and tell their stories.

I partner with a lot of agencies that help. I create awareness and the agencies follow up on the victims who speak out. Because right now, I don’t have those funding to take responsibilities for victims. So, the agencies do the needful to the victims that need help.

I hasn’t been easy, I must tell you. But once there’s a will, there’s a way. It’s something that I am very passionate about, both my career and my pet project.

(Laughs). What about it? Well, that’s one thing about me. I always try to bring in depth in every character I play.

Well, I know that based on our society, they would not receive it with smiling faces and that got me worried. But funnily enough, I didn’t really get the kind of backlash as I had expected. So people understood what we were trying to display. People didn’t criticize me as much as I had expected.

No never! That’s not Emmanuel but a character in a movie, so it can’t dent my image. Anybody who knows Emmanuel knows that I am so far away from that character I played in Fifty.

My parents understood that it was me playing a character and they were okay with it. I look up to a lot Hollywood actors and one major thing I took from them is depth. The fact that my role in that movie got controversial, then I did it quite well. That’s my own judgment.

No I can’t! It can’t even happen. I can’t do that.

Well, personally, I don’t think love is about age, as long as two people understand themselves, love themselves and willing to be together, age shouldn’t be an obstacle. Once there’s love, respect and communication, then they are good to go. But personally, I don’t think I can do it. Maybe someone that I am older than with 2-3 years, that’s the much I can do. I’m not against those that marry younger lover that’s women or men that date older women; it’s all about choice after all.

I have always had admirers, even before the movie Fifty. I have always had my way of dealing with them. It doesn’t change anything.

I have lots of female fans, jump up to me and give me a kiss right in the public. And I was like…’Ok…Ok’. But I just can’t embarrass them because they simply love me for what I do.

Of course, I do get that a lot. But not nude pictures though. I don’t think any female fan in her right senses would want to send me a nude picture. I know they do send though, but not to people like me. My image is not that corrupt for someone to try such.

Yes, I do, but I don’t do it for anybody in particular. It’s all about me. Ladies slide to my DMs to tell me how much they love me, how they desire to kiss me and make love to me, but not sending nude pictures.

Yes they do! But I don’t encourage them to pass their boundaries.

Yes, I’m. In a very happy one.

 Love is that thing that you feel towards someone that makes him or her become family.