I worked for it, stop linking my success to men – Actress Destiny Etiko spills

Popular Nigerian actress, Destiny Etiko has placed her anger on trolls who say she gets all her success and achievements from men as opposed to working her for it.

According to Destiny Etiko, she does not take those who link her achievements to men seriously. She stated this during an interview with Saturday Beats.

The actress stated that people will surely say that every of her achievement, no matter the work she puts into them, it will always be sponsored by men, but if she does not have a success rate to show for her career as an actress those same set of people will say she hasn’t done anything for herself.

In her words:

“It is funny because I work for my money and I get good endorsements. If it is easy for men to give one money, then go and collect money from men. I work, make my money, and some people appreciate me.

“I just got an endorsement deal with a Chinese company that deals in sanitary pads and baby diapers. When I achieve something tomorrow, people would say a man gave it to me. Let them keep talking. Even if I don’t achieve anything, it is still the same people that would say after all the films I have been acting, I have not done anything for myself. I don’t want to take it seriously.”

Destiny also recounted how her mother was one of her backbone in her decision to join the movie industry.

She gave an account of how she got a breakthrough in the year 2015. She also accounted for how her actress-mother lasted for about 3 years in her acting career to cater to her family.

she said, “My mother, Eucharia Etiko, started acting in 2004. She did not act in major roles and her acting career lasted for just three and half years because it was difficult for her to go on set and come back at night to attend to her family. Whenever we were on holidays, my mum would ask me to follow her and hold her bag whenever she was shooting. I followed her on three occasions and I featured in some cameo roles. I had minor roles as an adult too but I finally got a better role in 2012. 2015 was my breakthrough year as I started receiving regular calls from people who wanted to feature me in their films.”

Giving a recall of how life dealt with her family during her childhood days, She said, “Growing up was not easy. My father was a headmaster doing well and at some point, he worked with a firm as a treasurer where he was accused of theft after the money he was asked to take to the bank was stolen by armed robbers who attacked him on his way. My father had to pay for money he never took. It was an issue as we had to move out from the flat we were living into a ‘public’ house. My mother had stopped acting and we started living off the proceeds of the shop my father opened for her.”