{"id":38632,"date":"2024-06-23T12:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-quit-smoking-long-ago-dont-do-hard-drugs-actor-hanks-anuku\/"},"modified":"2024-06-23T12:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:04:24","slug":"i-quit-smoking-long-ago-dont-do-hard-drugs-actor-hanks-anuku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-quit-smoking-long-ago-dont-do-hard-drugs-actor-hanks-anuku\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I quit smoking long ago, don\u2019t do hard drugs\u2019 \u2013 Actor Hanks Anuku"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nollywood veteran, Hanks Anuku, has revealed that he doesn\u2019t smoke anymore and has never indulged in hard drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The thespian disclosed this while reacting to a viral video that falsely portrayed him as mentally unstable.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that a disturbing video showing Anuku dressed in tattered clothes, appearing to talk to himself, surfaced online in 2022, sparking speculations that he was mentally unstable.<\/p>\n<p>In a chat with content creator, Lucky Udu, the actor debunked the speculations, stressing that he doesn\u2019t engage in any activity that could temper with his mental health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not a mad man\u2026 Some people say I was on hard drugs. I don\u2019t do hard drugs. Back in the days I used to smoke but not anymore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never went into anything hard drugs. I have self control. There\u2019s probably where I was depressed and had to have a little drink like beers or wine. That\u2019s it. I don\u2019t drink hard liquor. But I was just isolated because I never thought I would be betrayed by my own people. It hurt me so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I quit smoking long ago, don\u2019t do hard drugs\u2019 \u2013 Actor Hanks Anuku<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nollywood veteran, Hanks Anuku, has revealed that he doesn\u2019t smoke anymore and has never indulged in hard drugs. The thespian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,4376,15,7593],"tags":[695,3305,18442,8,4377,705,3339,171,4378,2021,1262,180,895,7595,16272],"class_list":["post-38632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-hanks-anuku","category-news","category-smoke","tag-i","tag-actor","tag-ago","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-anuku","tag-dont","tag-drugs","tag-entertainment","tag-hanks","tag-hard","tag-long","tag-news","tag-quit","tag-smoke","tag-smoking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}