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Patience Ozokwor, a renowned veteran film actress also known as Mama G, has expressed her views on why she firmly believes that a woman should never abandon her career, especially if it is her passion, solely based on her husband’s disapproval.
To support her stance, Patience Ozokwor shared a personal anecdote about her marriage, where her sister advised her to give up acting when her husband fell ill.
She clarified that she chose not to do so because acting was their sole means of survival.
During an exclusive interview with Sunday Sun, the accomplished actress further revealed that even her husband did not discourage her from pursuing her acting career.
In Patience Ozokwor’s words:
“My dear, that is not done anywhere. You can’t tell me to give up on my passion just because we got married. For instance, if someone studied nursing for over five years, you then tell her not to venture into it because you are her husband, it is not done. And for this acting, you know it is one passion that can drive you crazy, that makes you so happy.
I remember then when I started acting my husband was very sick, my sister told me to stop acting and take care of my husband, but I told her no. I mean he is sick and he is not working and she wants me to give up my work too.
My husband even told me not to give up, he will always tell my kids to put my movies for him so he can watch them. I made sure I registered him at UNTH for the best treatments, and when he had a crisis, I ran back to him. So, you can’t give up a passion for marriage.”
Recall that Evangelist Patience Ozokwor shared the story of how she was compelled into marriage by her parents when she was only 19 years old.
Referred to affectionately as ‘Mama G’, Ozokwor expressed her confusion at her parents’ insistence on her marrying at such a young age, stating that their primary concern was simply to see her wed.
Growing up in a polygamous household, she revealed that her mother was particularly keen on seeing her married off before her siblings.
During a recent interview with RTV, a television station in Ghana, the veteran actress recounted her experience.
“It was not my decision [to get married at 19]. And if it’s not my decision it means I was forced into it.
“I was forced into it many years ago, and I did not see any reason my parents were forcing me as I was still young.
“And even at that age I had so many suitors. You know when you come from a polygamous family and your mother is struggling for her own daughters to get married and this other one is also struggling for her own daughters to get married and when this one [suitor] came around and my mother said go and I could not make a choice. I was not allowed to make a choice. At the end, I had to obey my parents.
“I was not brought up to disobey them at all.
When asked if she enjoyed the marriage after she obliged her parents push, she added, “Sincerely speaking as a Christian I did not. The marriage was not easy at all for me as a young girl, it was not easy.”
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