Patience Ozokwor, a professional actress, spoke about her early career experiences of being pressed to take titles and how she dealt with them.
She claimed that many tried to compare her to Liz Benson, but she rejected since she believed they were different people.
She also rejected the idea of using her husband’s first name as her surname, instead choosing his family name. This information was revealed in an interview with Nwafo TV.
She said:
“I don’t know how it started, all I know was that when I started [my acting career] and people started recognising this woman from Enugu.
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“So, there was a time I came to Lagos for a shoot and people started saying, ‘That’s her, this woman from Enugu.’ They said, ‘You’re the Liz Benson’ of Enugu.’
“I said, ‘No, with all due respect, I don’t want to be like Liz Benson, I want to be myself. I am Patience Ozokwor of Enugu’,” she recalled.
She added: “And some people came and said, ‘You don’t even need to answer Patience Ozokwor again. Answer your husband’s first name Edmund; Patience Edmund.’
“I said, ‘No, because in Igbo land you’re not just married by one man, you’re married by a family. I don’t know about other tribes.
“So my husband’s people, their name is Ozokwor. When you mention Ozokwor in any part of this world, people who know the Ozokwors would say ‘I know where she comes from’.”
