Stop Seeing Me As An Advocate For Divorce – May Edochie

Nollywood actress, May Edochie has finally responded to the backlash she has been receiving from men after filing for divorce from Yul Edochie in 2023.

She recently had her say during an interview with AY Makun on the latest episode of his Glasshouse podcast, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, even if some men now see her as someone who is misleading their wives, she wants Nigerians to know that she is not an advocate for divorce.

May added that she loves family and marriage wholeheartedly, but circumstances led to her opting out.

Her words, “Some men see me as someone who is misleading their wives.

I love family and I love marriage, but there is this misconception about marriage that is totally different, but ideally marriage is the basis of family. Without family, there would be no you or me; that’s how it used to be.

I am not in any way advocating divorce or separation in any way, not at all. Let me categorically state it here that I am not an advocate for divorce.”

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.