Eucharia Anunobi, a veteran actress from Nollywood, has talked about how hard it was for her to get along with her father when she was going to school and working in the entertainment industry.
Anunobi revealed in a podcast interview that her father was very against her education and goals since he thought that teaching a female was pointless since she would eventually married and take a different name.
She says that he stopped helping her with her studies, even though he had enough money, and even cut connections with her when she didn’t want to follow the career route he wanted.
She added that modelling was how she paid for her studies, saying that it kept her going and paid for her schooling.
Anunobi also remembered that her father confined her in her room for six months after she refused to fill out job applications for an office job. He slid the forms under the door and made her finish them.
She said no, even though they were pushing her, because she didn’t want to work in an office.
She also said that her father unofficially rejected her and fiercely disapproved of her acting career, which made her sneak out of the house and sometimes jump the fence to go to auditions.
She says that the turning point came after she received her first award for the movie Glamour Girls in London.
When she got home and gave the prize to her father, he told her to kneel down, put sand in her hand, and then blessed her.
“He said that they could never measure your glory because they can’t count the sand,” she remembered. It was the first time her father had hugged and blessed her after years of fighting.
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