Till November authored by the prolific writer, actor, director and
producer, Charles Novia In one of the pages of the book published to
revealed behind the scenes of actors et all, he makes mention of a day
he caught the movie goddess, Genevieve Nnaji smoking a cigarette.
Novia reveals that it's a big shock to him. Hear him, "...I remember
on the third day of recording, one night while shooting at a clinic in
Victoria Garden City Extension, I came out for a bit of fresh air
while the technical people were setting up for the next scene. I saw
Genevieve in a dark corner of the building, smoking a cigarette.
'Whoops! You caught me', she said, laughing.
'You smoke?' I asked, a bit surprised. 'Now and then. It relaxes me '
she said. 'Do you smoke?' 'Never have. Never will. But I don't have
any problems with people who smoke though. But health wise, I hope you
stop soon.' I replied. 'I am trying to. Sit with me a bit, lets talk
about this scene.' I sat with her and I explained some few things to
her about the scene. We also talked about a bit of her stardom and how
she was coping with it. She was in a
chatty mood and it was a revealing conversation."
This will definitely shock a lot of Genevieve's fans too, the reason
is that, no one ever thought she smokes but that's actually not a big
deal, a lot of her colleagues do and they don't see
anything wrong in it, after all, everybody does it.
'Smokers are liable to die young,' I hope this surgeon advice would
make any meaning to them