Popular Nigeria actor, Chinedu Ikedieze, better know by his stage name, Aki, has explained why he wanted to commit suicide when he was diagnosed with stunted growth.
Aki revealed this in a recent interview with popular media personality, Chude Jideonwo.
He explained that he became disturbed after he heard the doctor announce his condition to his mother and thought of ending his life due to the bullying from other children because he wasn’t growing normally.
The actor said, “Something happened when I was nine years and six months old. I remember the doctor saying to my mum; ‘Madam, what he has is stunted growth.’
“That was when I started hearing the words, stunted and retarded growth. I cried several times because I was bullied in school and even at home because I wasn’t growing properly. It got bad, there were times I thought of ending it all. Thank God I no grow for Lagos because Third Mainland Bridge no far o [laughs].”
Ikedieze, however expressed to his mother for standing by him through those hard times.
He further disclosed that from the first time he met Osita Iheme, aka Pawpaw, “there was this chemistry there.”
