Veteran actor, Akin Lewis has opened up on his failed
marriage among other things.
In a recent chat with Sun newspaper, Akin Lewis who
became a TV star at 22 following his stint in sitcom, Why
Worry, revealed thus:
“Hmmm, my saddest moment was when my first marriage
broke up. For 27 years, I never knew the kind of woman she
was. When the marriage was 20 years, she dissolved it, not
that I dissolved it. My wife actually dissolved the marriage. I
couldn’t believe my eyes and ears. Up till today, we still
couldn’t unravel what was the cause. I couldn’t till today.
My wife just woke up one day and said she’s no longer
interested in the marriage. A mother of four children, it’s just
like a dream to me”
On how he copes with female admirers:
On his closest shave with death he said:
“If you should ask this question in the presence of
my friends, they will tell you that I always run away
from them because I fear women a lot. I have a lot
of female admires. I’ve had a lot of propositions,
and you won’t believe it, its like If I start taking
these propositions, I won’t be able to have this
interview because I would have been a dead man
today. I remember the scripture saying ‘man does
not live by bread alone’ I admire all my female fans
and I am grateful that they are my fans. God bless
them all.
Aaaaah, one came over from England, people that
know about this story will be smiling as they read
this. I knew her from my facebook page where we
all used to chat as fans. But I never knew how she
got my phone number. She would call and send me
series of text messages and I will respond because
I had to be nice to everyone. One day, the lady just
landed suddenly in Nigeria with her bags and
everything. She called me and said ‘dear I have
landed in Nigeria, I have a party to attend and I’ve
gotten all you needed to go to the party with me’. I
was just shaking. At a point, I didn’t know what to
do. I asked her, ‘what do you want from me?
I didn’t know you before, there is nothing between
us more than you are one of my friends on
facebook’ I was so scared that I asked ‘what kind
of life is this?’ I believed it was a setup to destroy
my name. I just told her ‘sorry I can’t go to the
party’. But she kept pestering me. When she didn’t
want me to rest, I fought her, and I told her she
must be mad with all her actions. She angrily
fought back, saying lots of things to me. She
mentioned one name which happened to be her
friend. From what she said, I knew that she and her
friend had taken a bet over me as to who gets me
first. Can you imagine I didn’t even know when she
went back to England? My friends started calling
me ‘FF’ from that period. Whenever we hear ‘FF’
we will start laughing because it’s a crazy story
that I can never forget.”
“Yes, a lot of times, I can give you two instances. I
grew up in the northern part of Nigeria. I could
remember vividly just before the civil war when Igbo
were being killed. You know, I look like an Igbo with
the marks on the sides of my face. Immediately you
see me, you will assume I’m Igbo. One day, they
took me and then tied me up. They later laid me
down and their boss commanded I should be killed.
The executioner came and started reciting Arabic
incantation on me before he could kill me. But
immediately my mother heard about it she came
running and started shouting ‘he’s my son, he is
not any Igbo’. When they heard her from afar they
paused to check where the noise was coming
from.”
“When my mother got there, they saw she was
having Yoruba tribal marks on her face; that was
how I was saved from death. The story always
touches my heart anytime I remember it. The
second time was when I was in Europe.
Immediately I finished my exams and was going
home, my friends said ‘Akin, lets go and enjoy
ourselves to celebrate the success of the exams’.
So, we decided to go to the seaside. The sea was
very far so we decided to take a night express.”
“As we were going, we saw a drunk soldier who
threatened to kill us and we started running. Every
cabin we tried to open and hide ourselves was
locked. Eventually we broke into one and hid
ourselves but the soldier came and met us there,
saying to himself, ‘should I kill them all or what?’
There’s no way he would kill us all without also
killing the white man among us. Within few
minutes, we saw two fully armed soldiers looking
for him. Though, we couldn’t know the end of the
story as they whisked him away, we couldn’t sleep
till daybreak. That was how I escaped from death
again. I am a destiny child; God sent me to this
world for a purpose, my God is so wonderful to
me.”