She mentioned this to producer-director, Charles Novia, while on the set of one of his movie, More than Sisters that had Stella Damasus, Segun Arinze as co-actors. According to Novia, who confirmed it in his book, ‘Nollywood Till November: Memoirs of a Nollywood Insider’, the actress smokes but not on a regular basis, only when she needs it to calm her nerves.
As contained in his book, ‘Our
mutual professional respect for each other developed the more. I
remember on the third day of recording, one night while shooting at a
clinic in Victoria Garden City Extension, I came out for a bit of fresh
air while the technical people were setting up for the next scene. I saw
Genevieve in a dark corner of the building, smoking a cigarette.
‘Whoops! You caught me’, she said, laughing. ‘You smoke?’ I asked, a bit
surprised. ‘Now and then. It relaxes me ’ she said. ‘Do you smoke?’
‘Never have. Never will. But I don’t have any problems with people who
smoke though. But health wise, I hope you stop soon.’ I replied. ‘I am
trying to. Sit with me a bit, lets talk about this scene.’ I sat with
her and I explained some few things to her about the scene. We also
talked about a bit of her stardom and how she was coping with it. She
was in a chatty mood and it was a revealing conversation’, he wrote.
Nnaji though popular for her acting skills, is also a model, singer and owner of a fashion line, St Genevieve which she launched in May, 2008.
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