Veteran Nollywood actor Nonso Diobi has shared the reason why he remains unmarried at 48. He recently broke down the emotional toll a lifelong career in acting has had on his relationships.
Speaking during a new interview, Nonso revealed that growing up in the spotlight and living a chunk of his life on television made it very hard for him to relate to the world outside of Nollywood.
He shared that a lot of movie stars find it hard to differentiate between the real world and the scripted one, stressing that such reality is what he presently battles with.
According to him, even though he has given love and relationships several chances in the past, he has not been able to get it right.
“Let me make it very snappy: a lot of actors and filmmakers find it difficult to differentiate between the real world and the make-believe one. I tried; I have given love and relationships chances.
I’ve tried consistently but what people don’t understand is that I’ve been making efforts to build relationships with people that could lead to marriage but guess what? I realised that there were certain things that I wasn’t doing right. I was seeing the relationships from the perception of scripts that I always write,” he said.
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The actor further stated that sometimes actors act for way too long that they practically forget how living in the real world feels.
He concluded by saying that movies and real life are two different worlds, but he has lived in people’s realities for so long that he forgot his own.
“Actors act for too long and live in the make-believe world for so long that they practically forget how to live in the real world. The world is a different ballgame from the movies.
I grew up on TV so I don’t know what it means to be a regular guy, I don’t know what regular people know. Everything about me is film and storylines. I’ve lived in people’s realities for so long that I’ve forgotten how to live in my own reality,” he added.
