Nigerian actress cum filmmaker, Toyin Abraham, has shared how her husband, Kolawole Ajeyemi, influenced her decision to quit cigarette smoking.
The 43-year-old actress, while speaking on the Morayo Show, revealed that Ajeyemi gave her a stern ultimatum during her pregnancy to choose between their marriage and the risk of influencing their child into smoking.
“Kolawole Ajeyemi is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. He lets me be me. I used to smoke cigarettes. I still smoke vape once in a while. But I stopped smoking cigarettes,” she said.
“My husband told me something when I got pregnant that ‘you know you can no longer smoke’.”
The award-winning film star recounted how her husband addressed the issue after she gave birth.
“When I gave birth, we went out, and he saw me smoking; he did not say anything. But he told me that he did not say I should not smoke cigarettes, but must not see the butt with his child,” he said.
“He warned that anytime he sees such, that would be the end of the marriage.”
Abraham married Ajeyemi in 2019, and they had their first child later that year. She also talked about how her husband reacts to her romantic roles in movies.
She said his maturity as “a man, not a boy” means he has no issues with her work.
“About kissing in movies, my husband is mature. He is not a boy. He is a man. Most of my colleagues ‘ wives are comfortable with me. I can do everything else. But ‘promiscuity’ is not one of them,” she said.
“God has blessed me with a platform now; I do not have to kiss anybody like years past.”
