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Victoria Inyama is a Nigerian actress who is well loved for her different roles in the Nollywood.
Although she’s now based in the United Kingdom where she also work as a physiologist, the Thespian still finds time to nurture her first love; acting.
In a recent interview, the divorced mother of three revealed that she’s more comfortable being addressed as a psychologist than an actress.
She gave her reasons, “Let’s say you walk into a hall where there are families and someone says, Oh, she’s an actress, the response is always, hmmmm! The bias is already there, and then you have to extra-behave yourself. You see some women making moves, something like, hold your husband, hold your boyfriend, etc. It’s not as if actresses are the worst, we have other people that are worse. Most times, when I properly introduce myself and I speak, they now know that this one is intelligent. Don’t be categorising everybody as the same. Some of us really went to school and were educated. With the influence of reality shows, everybody is now acting.”
Asked if marriage that brought her to the UK where she’s now permanently based, Inyama said recalled, “My father and my step-brother used to live here. I came to visit him when he was alive. Both of them have passed away now. I met my ex-husband here. I got married and started having kids.
I have been very vocal on domestic violence. I talk about it all the time. It was very much in my marriage, that was why I backed out of the relationship and got a divorce. I have three children. Two boys and a girl. My marriage almost destroyed my life.”
