{"id":6255,"date":"2023-12-10T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-almost-quit-nollywood-over-sexual-harassment-mercy-aigbe\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T15:02:34","slug":"i-almost-quit-nollywood-over-sexual-harassment-mercy-aigbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-almost-quit-nollywood-over-sexual-harassment-mercy-aigbe\/","title":{"rendered":"I almost quit Nollywood over sexual harassment \u2013 Mercy Aigbe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Popular Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe has narrated how she almost left the Nigerian movie industry over sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The actress disclosed this while narrating her challenges before making her way to the top.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>\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<p>\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<p>\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<p>I almost quit Nollywood over sexual harassment \u2013 Mercy Aigbe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe has narrated how she almost left the Nigerian movie industry over sexual harassment. The actress&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6457,15],"tags":[6458,171,476,180],"class_list":["post-6255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-mercy-aigbe","category-news","tag-aigbe","tag-entertainment","tag-mercy","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255","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=6255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}