Admin l Thursday, February 22, 2018
LAGOS, Nigeria – The gale of revelation about sexually harrassement rocking Hollywood, in the United States seems to have shifted base to Nigeria, with Nollywood superstar, Stephnora Okere revealing that a popular Nollywood filmmaker once asked her to strip with knife on her neck.
She did not mention the name of the filmmaker neither did she say whether or not she was eventually raped by the assailant. Okere who was speaking on Broadway TV, it was due to sexual assaut that she has to quit acting settle down with her NGO. She said her family advised her against making noise ouf of the issue.
“Yes I had. And that is one of the things that made me to set up my NGO. If I say didn’t then I will be lying. Maybe over the years I held it back. Yes I tried not to talk about it because my family said ‘let it go, let it pass.’ I was harassed by a foremost producer who actually put a knife to my neck and asked me to strip. It’s a story for another day. I went through that and actually left Nollywood at the point because when that happened my family said that was enough for acting.
“My family never supported me having acting as a full time job but when I started doing well and they started seeing me on TV, they started loving it until the producer guy did what he did and they said ‘that was enough of acting. So I stopped Nollywwod for two whole years. I stopped going for auditions and started applying for bank jobs.”
