Prominent Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe has revealed her close brush with exiting the Nigerian film industry, citing encounters with sexual harassment as the primary reason.

In a recent interview on 'Your View,' a talk show hosted by Morayo Afolabi-Brown on TVC, Mercy Aigbe shared a disturbing incident where a producer made unwarranted sexual advances towards her following a movie audition, despite already securing a role in an upcoming film.

The single mother underscored the challenging circumstances, mentioning that she had just resigned from a lucrative job at the time to pursue the movie role, only to be confronted with sexual harassment in her inaugural foray into 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.”

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Prominent Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe has revealed her close brush with exiting the Nigerian film industry, citing encounters with sexual harassment as the primary reason.

In a recent interview on 'Your View,' a talk show hosted by Morayo Afolabi-Brown on TVC, Mercy Aigbe shared a disturbing incident where a producer made unwarranted sexual advances towards her following a movie audition, despite already securing a role in an upcoming film.

The single mother underscored the challenging circumstances, mentioning that she had just resigned from a lucrative job at the time to pursue the movie role, only to be confronted with sexual harassment in her inaugural foray into 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.”

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