Nollywood star actress, Sola
Sobowale has revealed what made her leave the comfort and stardom in Nigeria to
start doing menial jobs at a point in her life in the United Kingdom.
The veteran actress narrated
that the need to be there for her children who were studying in the UK at that
time made her abandon the fame, money, and comfort of Nigeria to give them
motherly care.
Speaking during an episode of
#WithChude, Sobowale disclosed that in the early 2000s when she
decided to leave the country, she was already making as much as N5 million
within months of acting.
But the need to be there for
her children made her sacrifice the luxury lifestyle and take up menial jobs
such as cleaning, cooking, and mopping office floors to make ends meet in the
UK where she earned 7.5 pounds per hour.
She added that now that they
are done and working, the children always appreciate her sacrifice for them
while she is back to acting.
According to her, “I went
back to England and noticed the kids lack motherly touch. Then I moved to
England and forget stardom.”
“Now, all of them are working
and now they appreciate me for my sacrifice and ask me to go back to what I
know how to do best so that’s why I’m back in Nigeria.
“I remembered I was at Enugu
and in one location I spent one week. In that one week, I was on N800,000 and
that was in the year 2000. And then I came back to Lagos with over N5 million
within how many months, the money was blowing. So I left that for 7.50 pounds
per hour. I swept, mopped, cleaned offices and cooked in England.”
