10th August, 2012
One of Nigeria’s foremost cross-over actresses, Foluke Daramola, has revealed that when she started her career, her mother, a widow, was initially not comfortable with it because of her aversion for negative publicity. Her philosophy was that with the media, you had no private life of your own; all eyes, including your enemies’, would be on you.
Mrs. Aderonke Daramola, Foluke’s mom lost her husband in 1981 and was left to fend for four kids. Though young and attractive, she refused to re-marry, maintaining that marriage to another man would not give her the time to take care of her children.
“The sacrifice was not for her late husband but for her kids. So, she wanted to protect us by all means,” Foluke comments on this weekend’s edition of the celebrity Supermom show.
Thus, when she discovered that her beloved daughter had started acting at a most impressionable age, she was infuriated.
“My mom is a very conservative person and so never wanted any unnecessary attention and bad comments about any of her children. She would always say ‘you’re not born to do this thing, I don’t want you to do it.’”
She also beat her up and even cut her hair. As the years went by however, and with acting making Foluke famous around the neighbourhood and beyond, Mrs Daramola’s steely resolve began to soften. But she made her promise never to go nude on screen or worship another god except the Almighty God. She has kept to her promise.
Sharing the spotlight with Foluke this week is Empire Mates Entertainment rapper and debutant, Raoul John Njeng Njeng popularly known as Skales. And the young man sure has a tearjerker for a story. At age eight, his father abandoned home, leaving mother and son without even a roof over their heads.
This and other secrets will be unravelled in this week’s edition of Supermom celebrity edition showing on major stations across Nigeria.