Veteran Nollywood Actor, Akin Lewis Opens Up On Failed Marriage & More

Veteran actor, Akin Lewis recently opened up on his failed marriage and more in a recent interview with The Sun.

Read excerpts:

On failed marriage:

Hmmm, my saddest moment was when my first marriage broke up. For 27 years, I never knew the kind of woman she was. When the marriage was 20 years, she dissolved it, not that I dissolved it. My wife actually dissolved the marriage. I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears. Up till today, we still couldn’t unravel what was the cause. I couldn’t till today. My wife just woke up one day and said she’s no longer interested in the marriage. A mother of four children, it’s just like a dream to me.

On how he copes with female admirers:

If you should ask this question in the presence of my friends, they will tell you that I always run away from them because I fear women a lot. I have a lot of female admires. I’ve had a lot of propositions, and you won’t believe it, its like If I start taking these propositions, I won’t be able to have this interview because I would have been a dead man today. I remember the scripture saying ‘man does not live by bread alone’ I admire all my female fans and I am grateful that they are my fans. God bless them all.

Aaaaah, one came over from England, people that know about this story will be smiling as they read this. I knew her from my Facebook page where we all used to chat as fans. But I never knew how she got my phone number. She would call and send me series of text messages and I will respond because I had to be nice to everyone. One day, the lady just landed suddenly in Nigeria with her bags and everything. She called me and said ‘dear I have landed in Nigeria, I have a party to attend and I’ve gotten all you needed to go to the party with me’. I was just shaking. At a point, I didn’t know what to do. I asked her, ‘what do you want from me?

I didn’t know you before, there is nothing between us more than you are one of my friends on Facebook. I was so scared that I asked ‘what kind of life is this?’ I believed it was a setup to destroy my name. I just told her ‘sorry I can’t go to the party’. But she kept pestering me. When she didn’t want me to rest, I fought her, and I told her she must be mad with all her actions. She angrily fought back, saying lots of things to me. She mentioned one name which happened to be her friend. From what she said, I knew that she and her friend had taken a bet over me as to who gets me first. Can you imagine I didn’t even know when she went back to England? My friends started calling me ‘FF’ from that period. Whenever we hear ‘FF’ we will start laughing because it’s a crazy story that I can never forget.

On juggling home and career: 

I always take my family out of this because I’m the only celebrity. I don’t want them to be in the limelight like me. I don’t want it, but one of my kids is insisting to wear my shoes now, but he’s still under training. When the time is ripe for him, I believe he would surely do more than I did. I don’t pretend to be what I’m not, my home apart and my career apart. I am very happy that I manage both without any distraction.