Veteran Nollywood actor, Hanks Anuku has refutted the rumour that he was suffering from insanity.
Recall that a viral video had sometime in 2022 surfaced, showing Hanks Anuku dressed in tattered clothes and soliloquizing, stirring up rumour that the actor was mentally unstable.
However, reacting to the rumour amid allegations that he was also taking hard drugs, the actor in a recent interview with Lucky Udu (a content creator) said;
“I was trying to get into character for a role I was going to play, a madman role. Someone who was not in his correct senses or right frame of mind.”
“So I had to go naturally visit the environment on how I would play it in that same neighborhood. I was just showing the way the director wanted me to do it, meditating and getting into character.”
“They said a lot of stuff. They said I was sick, on drugs, I am not sick, I was not on drugs, maybe they saw me depressed, depression can bring stress. But me being on drugs, that’s not true: I am not a madman, I am very sane.”
“I lost friends, producers no longer contacted me for jobs. I lost a lot of money, I lost jobs, and I was jobless. People did not care about me. It was God who directed my footsteps to a good soul.”
“I went through pain. If you were in my shoes, you would feel it. I was heartbroken for these people to do this to me.”
See the full interview below:
