Actress Omotola Jalade Narrates What Made Her Emotionless...

Nollywood actress Omotola Jalade Ekeinde sat down with Chude to have a chat and she revealed what made her emotionless and how she almost became a prostit3te....
 

She said: “I think everything i have been today, positively or negatively was because of my father's death, it affected me so much, I didn't mourn my dad. They picked me up from school and I was just 12, I was his only child for a long time and my dad and I were very close. My Dad was the manager of Lagos country club, were you get to meet influential people (Like the president) and because of that, I started rolling with people of influence from a little age".

"So I got to know them because I was always with my dad, there were presidents around and my dad will still want me to sit with them. So,the first thing my dad did that broke my heart was when I was shipped to Command secondary school Kaduna when I was 8...9.... I was a child and I didn’t really take it very well, I was wondering why would my dad do that, but at that time they had just given birth to my brothers, i was 7 when they gave birth to my younger brother, so at age 9 my Dad had already shipped me to command Secondary School, Kaduna. He took me there himself.

I  also remember vividly well when he was leaving we were both crying, but as a child it really affected me. As a child I thought because my dad had other kids I’m no more important to him".


She added; "When I was 12, I was in Jss3 preparing for my exams I was already becoming a little lady,like a teenager, thinking I will be able to spend time and bond with my Dad, One faithful day,they just came to pick me up from school and told me I have to go home".

"In those days they pick you up and you have to enter Nigeria Airways,I had a long wait at the airport pondering why I’m going home, but people in my school had already gotten information that my dad had died, but were just assisting me to pack my bags but they didn’t tell me anything. I knew something was wrong and the only thing I kept saying was,I hope it's not my Dad. In a very callus way I was okay with it if it was anybody else but not my Dad.

"So, when I got home, I saw the crowd and I knew obviously someone had died. So going through that mental process till I got to my compound. I had to walk through everyone and as I was walking, everyone was looking, it was like a movie,some were wailing,some were looking in slow motion. I still remember the feeling and I kept thinking who will greet me first, then I saw my younger brothers and I walk up the stairs and I saw my mum and I froze!!!... Then it dawned on me immediately it was my Dad.
I didn’t know how to react and I didn’t know if it was the guilt of me thinking it shouldn't be him, I was to young to process it or the fact that I have missed him now that he's dead I won't see him again,I just there I was numb..like really numb.
I’m older now and I think I really understand everything but then I didn't. So I just became emotionless and it has affected me till this day".

"There is hardly anything you will say to me that can move me, I am so confident of who I am and I don’t fear anyone. I don’t fear for my life, i would have become a prostitute today because I was very desperate. It got to a point that I said to myself that I would rather sell my body than for anyone to take my younger brothers apart".