I’m changing the notion that actresses don’t make a good wife – Mercy Johnson

Nollywood actress, Mercy Johnson, has debunked claims that most actresses do not make a good wife.

In a chat with Leadership, she used her own marriage as an example, revealing that her secret is honesty and being humble in spite of the fame.

Speaking on the general notion that actresses do not make good wives, the mother of three said, “Well, I can only speak from my own perspective and when I say my perspective, I mean from my personal experiences, marriage and relationship with my husband. One of the biggest lies anyone can tell himself/herself is using one or more random experiences to judge and stereotype others. We all have our different stories to tell. I have three children for my husband today and he has not stopped talking about how down-to-earth I was yet I am an actress; not just any actress.” 

Mercy added that although she had a large ‘following’ at a time, she did not go around ‘pouting’ her lips or ‘playing the snub.’The ‘Dumebi’ thespian went further to reveal how her husband asked her to cook for him the first day she set foot in his house.

She said, “At first, I was stunned that a Nigerian man was asking me to enter his kitchen to cook him a meal. A part of me whispered to me that perhaps, he was not aware of who I was and when I said to him: ‘You must be joking. My name is Mercy Johnson’. What shocked me even more was his response when he said: ‘I know’. Rather than take offence, I was drawn closer to him.

“As I said earlier, I am an actress who is correcting the rigid stand that actresses cannot have happy homes when they get married. Also, bear in mind that there are several Nigerian actresses like me who are happily married. Having a happy marriage is a choice a woman has to make. When you decide to have a happy marriage, you focus your thoughts, actions, words, work and everything else around protecting that happiness,” she asserted. 

On the reason behind high divorce rate among celebrities, she quipped, “In marriage, you must have trust and you must also have love. The moment you lose these two, then it is just a matter of time before you embark on a calamitous countdown towards the end of your marriage. My relationship with my husband has been very special. He is not just my husband or father of my children. He is my friend.”