Popular Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe has shared how she nearly left the Nigerian movie industry due to experience of sexual harassment.
Popular Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe has shared how she nearly left the Nigerian film industry due to some unpleasant experiences of sexual harassment. She made this known during a talk show at TVC.
Mercy Aigbe in sharing sharing his experience recounted how a producer made inappropriate sexual advances at her after a movie audition, despite securing a in an upcoming film.
The single mother spoke on how she had just quit a well-paying job at the time she got the role, unknown to her the level of sexual harassment awaiting her in her first shot at acting.
“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,” she said.
Mercy added, “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.”