Following
the widespread rumours about her quitting the movie industry, popular
actress, Patience Ozokowor has come out to address confused fans.
Patience Ozokwor
Veteran actress, Patience Ozokwor, some time ago, announced that
she has re-dedicated her life to Christ, and various rumours have been
circulating about her since then.
Perhaps at the top on the list was that she said God told her to
drop her popular pseudonym, Mama G. In fact, ohers claimed that she said
God told her to quit her lucrative career.
However, in an exclusive chat with The Punch's Saturday Beats, the actress denied the rumour.
She added that if God gives her such instructions, she would not flinch before bending to His will.
“I did not just give my life to Christ. I have been a Christian
all my life. The problem was that there were some compromises God
wanted me to remove from my life. He wants me to be the face of
Christianity so that when anyone sees me, they will know that I am a
child of God.
"The world has mingled with the church a lot and there is no
difference between the world and the church. The way the worldly people
dress is the way Christians are dressing nowadays. God told me he does
not want his people to dress in that manner anymore. The men would plait
their hair and use earrings, all these things are making God angry and
even the women should be modest according to the way it is written in
the Bible.
"People should be known to be Christians through the way they
dress, talk and approach life situations. You cannot call yourself a
Christian and you drink alcohol. God does not want all that. I did not
just repent now, I have been a born again Christian all these years, it
is just that everybody has gone astray and we are now like unbelievers.
That is what God said.
“It is not true that I said I do not want to be referred to as
Mama G. I did not say so. It is the people that want to sell their
papers that told that lie. God did not say I should retire from my work;
after all, we act dramas in church. He did not tell me to stop acting
and he did not tell me to stop bearing Mama G. Mama G is not a bad name,
there are people who have bad names and he said they should drop them.
Mine is not bad. The meaning of Mama means mother and the G stands for
General. I am everybody’s mother.
"Even the scripture says that I am a mother to everybody, even
the motherless children. I am just lucky because everything is falling
into place. My name is not bad. The world should know that Mama G is
still Mama G; I am still Mama General and in other parts of Africa, they
call me Mama Africa. How can I deny my fans of that? God did not ask me
to quit my job, neither did he say I should renounce the name Mama G
because there is nothing wrong with the name. However, if he asks me to
stop bearing the name, I will throw it away because it is all about what
he wants and not what any man wants.”
Mama G added that her faith will not affect her movie roles. She
seized the opportunity to clear the air that her children have no
problem with her faith. She said that they are happy for her and she is
best of friend with her children.
She said, “My faith would not affect my career or movie roles.
The movie I am about to shoot is an action movie. I am using it to
expose some ills in the society. There are some obscene scenes that I
cannot take part in because I am a child of God. If you watch my films,
you will know that I have never shot any movie that is obscene. I tell
my stories but you will never see me n*ked. Even when I try to portray
some nude scenes, I do it moderately.
“My children are Christians and my daughter got born again at
the age of five. She is in London and she has nothing against my faith. I
should be with them on Thursday. It was when I had an encounter with
God that people started calling her to inform her that I was running mad
and they became worried. After I finished my 30 day encounter with God
and came out of it, when she saw me, she knew I was fine.
"I have been like this since I was a member of the Scripture
Union. I don’t have any problem with my children, we are all fine and
they are proud of me. In fact, they are my best friends. I go to places
where I can talk not only at churches or crusades, I talk about the word
of God anywhere I can. I need to tell everyone the truth about the word
of God.
"The Lord said that I should remove my dreads because
even though my dread is from my natural hair, whenever I am preaching
against weaves and telling ladies that it is demonic, people may think I
am carrying one and they begin to ask why I have such on my head.”
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