Actress Blessing Egbe Narrates How She Was Sexually Harassed By Filmmaker, Marketer

Blessing Egbe, a Nollywood actress and ‘Lekki Wives’ creator, has narrated how she was sexually harassed by a filmmaker and marketer.

Speaking
in an interview with Everything Entertainment, the actress who didn’t
name the filmmaker said he tried having sex with her in exchange for
movie roles. Blessing Egbe who narrated how she was sexually harassed by
a filmmaker and marketer in the interview, said;

“The harassment
came from a prominent writer, producer, director who also wanted to try
his luck. I had called to speak to him about the possibility of us
working together. He gave me an appointment which I kept. The meeting
was at a hotel, not his office. I had asked him why we were meeting at
the hotel and he said, it was a makeshift office… A routine he does when
he needs time to write. I believed him and followed him to the
makeshift office.

“When inside, he gave me a script to read and
went on to spew some lyrics which was intended to hit the right spot.
Only that my spot isn’t easily receptive to such targets. His lyrics
were: “you know, writing is like a drug when I start, I get really into
it, and that’s why I like to retreat” I go: “wow, I can imagine me too
I’d like to write some screenplays some day. I think I have a flair for
it. “I must have taken him off his route because his next statement made
sure to take us there. “Don’t you want to act again?” He asked. “of
course, I do, shebi that’s why I called you. You shoot a lot of films
and I will like to feature in one” I replied. Then he said something
like: “Great then but all the scripts I have now had complete cast
attached. What I can do for you is simple, I’ll write like 3 of 4
scripts with you as lead. But to do that you will have to spend some
time with me, we will travel to the east together and as I see you, the
inspiration will come for the stories.

“I paused for a while,
then came up with an answer: “wow you will do that for me? Thank you so
much. This calls for a celebration. I’m coming, let me discharge my
cabman. He was smiling when I left the room, but the smile didn’t last
as I called him soon after I entered the cab and abused the hell out of
him.”

She also recounted her experience with a marketer who groped her at a movie producer’s office.