Toyin Abraham Says She Doesn't Really Understand English

Nollywood actress, Toyin Abraham has said she does not understand the English language as much as she grasps Yoruba.

In an interview uploaded on her newly launched Youtube channel, and transcribed by The Cable News, the 32-year-old actress said she used to hawk plantain chips as a child because of her poor background.

“I can speak Yoruba very well and I can speak English small small. Then I can try to talk like a Calabar girl. When I look at my fans, I wonder what I did to deserve such fans, they are like my family now. I can speak Yoruba well, I understand English but not too well,” she said.

“I have been waiting to share my childhood with people. I grew up from a poor background, we were poor physically not spiritually. I used to sell Ipekere, known as plantain chips in English, in traffic.

“Years back, a friend that we used to hawk together died. We were hawking and she got crushed by a bus but that didn’t stop me from going back to sell a week later because there was nothing we were going to eat.”

The Alakada actress also revealed her bad habit.

“There’s nothing I don’t like about myself but I have one bad habit; I love picking my nose. I am getting over it, my team is working on me.