Bukky Wright Reveals She Became An Actress So That Her Kids Would Find Her
Veteran actress Bukky Wright has revealed how motherhood influenced her decision to become an actress.
Speaking on TheCable’s 2Kobo podcast, she said she did not enter Nollywood for fame or money.
According to her, she wanted her children, who were taken to live with their father after her marriage ended, to be able to find her when they grew older.
She said: “I didn’t come into the industry thinking of becoming a star or anything because coming into the industry, I did not even know what star meant. I have not heard that word star but for me, it was more of when my children grow up, they would be able to find me”.
“It’s a very emotional thing, and I just wanted a situation whereby I am not lost, or I am hard to find, because these children were taken away from me when they were very young. You know, in Nigeria, we believe the father owns the children, so when the marriage breaks, the father takes the children most of the time back then, but not now things have really changed.
Back then, the father, the father’s family takes the children. I tried, I did not want to leave my children, but when even your own family will tell you to take the children back to their father. I now thought that okay…. now that they want to take my children, how would they find me in future?.
Because at some point when they first took them, I would go and sit by the junction of the house, when they are taking them to school, I would jump on Okada and follow them to school. But at some point, they would change schools, but I felt okay.. I did not want this for my children, let me allow them.
I would cry, and I thought, if I allow them, how would I find them, or how would they find me?. That was the only thing that was coming to my brain… that okay atleast if I became popular, not star. I was not thinking of stardom, they would be able to ask one or two producers and say my mummy is so.. so oh. That was my own naive thinking.”
