Award winning filmmaker and actor, Kunle Afolayan has stated that his late father’s choice of 10 wives took a toll on him.
Afolayan made this known during a chat with BBC Pidgin on Wednesday where he opened up on growing up in a polygamous family and foray into filmmaking.
The ‘Citation’ producer said Adeyemi Afolayan, his late father, got “distracted” by his desire for polygamy.
In his words: “I would not want to marry many wives because my father had 10 wives and I knew what happened throughout that period. I knew that really distracted my father. In this age, nobody needs to tell you before you know what’s right,” he said.
He also recounted how he battled poverty and other challenges in his early days in the movie landscape before he rode into the spotlight.
“I was born in Ebute-Metta and have lived in one-room apartment before that we even have to grapple with flood sometimes. It’s not shame to say have been poor before. But if you see how l made it, it’s a matter of consistency. My father was a very popular filmmaker and ordinarily, people would expect me to life the kind of live akin to Hollywood stars,” he said.
“But that wasn’t the case. How would one live such life when you’re living in a room with ten women. That doesn’t mean there was no love among us.”