Ayoola is one of the most talented actors of his generation. Everybody loves him.
But behind all that massive talent lies a man ocean of stories - running away from Kano with his family at the risk of death, applying for reality show auditions about 10 times, and literally getting so hungry he had to embrace acting when music wasn’t working.
And then the big one: a pastor’s son having a child out of wedlock, when he didn’t even have a job to his name. He lost it. He got so depressed that one day he walked into the middle of traffic… to take his own life.
How did he grow from all of that to become the multiple award-winning star of Men’s Club, WAR, If I Am President and the glorious newly-returned Skinny Girl in Transit.
This conversation was good.
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