Tribune, disclosed that many of his female fans are stubborn,
"they want to get close, forgetting that I am a family man. "
The actor who was once rumored to be sexually involved with
a certain lady and sending her nude photos, further cleared the
air on the rumour saying
"A few of them have scandalised me, even online; they have
posted some nasty things about me, which are not true. There
was one lady who was getting familiar with me on the phone.
I lashed at her, she then started calling me names. So I went
on Facebook to tell my colleagues to beware of these names.
She then thought she could deal with me, so she paid someone
to write that I was sending nude pictures to her.
There was also another National Youths Service Corps
member who wanted to get close to me and asked me to take
her out for an event. I asked her to go on her own and then
she got rude and started saying that I cursed her, and said she
would die. I was not happy about it, because this was a young
lady, a corps member at that. I did my Nysc almost 30 years
ago. She also added the sex issue. I just felt she wanted to be
popular and now she is popular like Genevieve. Congrats to
her."
When asked to tell who the real "Yemi Soluade" is, he said "I
am very down to earth. I am an indoor person. I love to be on
my own. Even within the family unit, I love to be on my own.
I have a sense of humour. Sometimes it could be reckless, but
I am moderate. I love to project my culture, though I am not a
tribalist. I like to dress and act like a Yoruba man, because it
gives me inner peace to act like that which is mine.
I am a pan-Africanist; I believe in Kwame Nkrumah's
philosophy, which promotes Negritudism; that which shows I
am a true African. I am also very Afro-centric. I love to eat
my African meal, dip my hand into a plate of fufu and gbegiri
(soup made from beans) with goat meat and shaki (offal) in
the buka (local canteen), which also makes me a bukatarian.
Anywhere I am in the world, I look for bukas to eat because,
if I eat anything other than African foods, I will probably die.
I think other Chinese cuisines are poisonous, because even
when you enter a Chinese restaurant, for instance what they
write on their menu list you cannot read. I socialise averagely,
especially when I am with my homies and friends (non-
actors).
On why he doesn't wear his wedding ring?
It's bondage. I am a free person. When I want to sleep, I sleep
like Adam. I like my skin to be free all the time.
Can you tell me some of the negative things you have read
about yourself in the media?
There was one that they listed celebrities whose marriages had
crashed and my own caption was 'Yemi Solade opens up on
his three failed marriages'.
Are you saying there were no failed marriages?
Only one. I was married to my first wife and she said she
wasn't ready to live in Nigeria anymore, and she left. We
could not cope with distance and then broke it up. I have been
married to my present wife for over a decade, so what are we
talking about? I never granted an interview to the journalist
that wrote that about me. I had all it took to make him pay for
what he did, but because it wasn't a story about me doing
drugs or rituals, I allowed the sleeping dog to lie.
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