As a lovely and kind person, actress Nikki Samonas admitted that she always expected people to be nice to her, but there was a point in her life when something happened that made her feel as though Ghanaians did not like her.
Speaking on Adom TV, the actress recounted the intense backlash she faced after starring alongside Nigerian actor Jim Iyke in the movie “My First Wife,” released in 2012.
According to the actress, the backlash stemmed from an intimate scene in the movie with the Nigerian actor, which attracted a lot of harsh and negative comments directed at her 14 years ago.
She explained that she could not understand why people reacted so harshly, stressing that it was only a movie role and nothing personal, contrary to how many people perceived it.
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“It was just a movie o, I beg you, it was just a movie. Like it was horrible. I wanted the earth to divide, then I enter so it closes. It was 2012, 14 years ago,” she said during the interview.
Nikki Samonas further disclosed that the harsh public reactions affected her emotionally, causing her to withdraw from people and stay away from social media conversations during that period.
“I really coiled that time. If I knew ignoring comments on social media was good at that time, I wouldn’t have read them because it was really bad,” she stated.
She added that the experience affected her so much that when Ghanaian filmmaker Abdul Salam Mumuni reached out to her for a movie role, she did not even answer his calls because she no longer wanted to return to the movie scene at the time.
The award-winning actress also shared how she landed the opportunity to work with Jim Iyke.
According to her, the Nigerian actor was in Ghana shooting films at the time and noticed her on the set of another movie in which she featured alongside actors she described as “top” stars.
She said Jim Iyke admired her acting skills and later selected her to feature in the project.
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