Nollywood Movie star, Yemi Solade in a recent interview with Tribune, disclosed that many of his female fans are stubborn, “they want to get close, forgetting that I am a family man. ”
The actor who was once rumored to be sexually involved with a certain lady and sending her nude photos, further cleared the air on the rumour saying
“A few of them have scandalised me, even online; they have posted some nasty things about me, which are not true. There was one lady who was getting familiar with me on the phone. I lashed at her, she then started calling me names. So I went on Facebook to tell my colleagues to beware of these names. She then thought she could deal with me, so she paid someone to write that I was sending nude pictures to her.
There was also another National Youths Service Corps member who wanted to get close to me and asked me to take her out for an event. I asked her to go on her own and then she got rude and started saying that I cursed her, and said she would die. I was not happy about it, because this was a young lady, a corps member at that. I did my Nysc almost 30 years ago. She also added the sex issue. I just felt she wanted to be popular and now she is popular like Genevieve. Congrats to her.”
When asked to tell who the real “Yemi Soluade” is, he said “I am very down to earth. I am an indoor person. I love to be on my own. Even within the family unit, I love to be on my own. I have a sense of humour. Sometimes it could be reckless, but I am moderate. I love to project my culture, though I am not a tribalist. I like to dress and act like a Yoruba man, because it gives me inner peace to act like that which is mine.
I am a pan-Africanist; I believe in Kwame Nkrumah’s philosophy, which promotes Negritudism; that which shows I am a true African. I am also very Afro-centric. I love to eat my African meal, dip my hand into a plate of fufu and gbegiri (soup made from beans) with goat meat and shaki (offal) in the buka (local canteen), which also makes me a bukatarian. Anywhere I am in the world, I look for bukas to eat because, if I eat anything other than African foods, I will probably die. I think other Chinese cuisines are poisonous, because even when you enter a Chinese restaurant, for instance what they write on their menu list you cannot read. I socialise averagely, especially when I am with my homies and friends (non-actors).
On why he doesn’t wear his wedding ring?
It’s bondage. I am a free person. When I want to sleep, I sleep like Adam. I like my skin to be free all the time.
Can you tell me some of the negative things you have read about yourself in the media?
There was one that they listed celebrities whose marriages had crashed and my own caption was ‘Yemi Solade opens up on his three failed marriages’.
Are you saying there were no failed marriages?
Only one. I was married to my first wife and she said she wasn’t ready to live in Nigeria anymore, and she left. We could not cope with distance and then broke it up. I have been married to my present wife for over a decade, so what are we talking about? I never granted an interview to the journalist that wrote that about me. I had all it took to make him pay for what he did, but because it wasn’t a story about me doing drugs or rituals, I allowed the sleeping dog to lie.
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