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Popular Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe has narrated how she almost left the Nigerian movie industry over sexual harassment.<\/p>\n
The actress disclosed this while narrating her challenges before making her way to the top.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview with Morayo Afolabi-Brown on \u2018Your View\u2019, a talk show on TVC, Aigbe recounted how a producer made passes at her after a movie audition despite earning the role for an upcoming film.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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.<\/p>\n
\u201d 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,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe 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\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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