I Left Nollywood Because Of My Fear Of Being S*xually Assaulted – Ashmusy

Nigerian content creator, Ashmusy has come out to share her reason for quitting acting in Nollywood.

She recently had her say while speaking with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, some of the movie producers promised to make her famous only if she agreed to get intimate with them, so she had to keep it moving.

Ashmusy added that due to their consistent requests to meet her in private spaces, her fear of being s*xually assaulted forced her out of the industry.

Her words, “I stopped acting in Nollywood because some producers always asked me to have sex with them. They usually invite me to private rooms, and it got to the point that I had to escape from one of them because I was so scared of being raped.

When I realized that it was becoming a constant thing in Nollywood, I decided to stop acting in movies because I cannot exchange my body for a movie role.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.