I Thank Everyone Who Showed Me Grace Without Knowing What I Was Going Through – Adesua Etomi

Nollywood actress, Adesua Etomi has come out to open up about her medical struggles in 2024.

She recently had her say via her social media page, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, 2024 was a terrifying year for her as she underwent an emergency C-section because the devil tried with her life again, and she has had a harrowing healing process since then.

Adesua added that Banky W also had another surgery for cancer, and she is grateful to everyone who showed them grace even when they didn’t know what they were going through.

Her words, “IT’S MY BIRTHDAYYYYY!!!

Long post alert.

2024 really tried to take the wind out of my sail, so I am so grateful to be here celebrating my life and God’s faithfulness.

From being ill for months with hyperemesis (if you’re going through this, I see you. It’s not in your head. You are as ill as you feel & think you are, and yes, you need help),

To be admitted to hospital, to find out the love of my life needed another surgery to remove a cancerous tumor while being sick and pregnant, to end up with an emergency c-section because the devil tried it with my life AGAIN, to a harrowing healing process…it was a lot.

I want to thank all the doctors who looked after me in Lagos, Nigeria, and the team in Washington DC that pretty much saved my life. I am here, and I am grateful.

I also want to thank God for my incredible husband. Banky, I love you to life.

I also want to thank everyone who gave me grace in 2024, especially those who didn’t know what I was going through. I know I missed a lot. I was missing a lot, but you extended grace and wrapped me in so much love.

My village people are incredible.

God has used this season to stretch me and show me that I am capable of much more than I ever realized.

Now? NOW, I am coming for everything that’s mine. Nothing and nobody can stop me.

Ps I woke up to the best gift ever. @jemimaosunde came to surprise me.”

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.