Famous actress, Mercy Aigbe, has disclosed that she had a long time crush on multiple award winning singer, 2baba.
Mercy made the disclosure when she was a guest on Gbenga Adeyinka’s Instagram Live Chat during the week. After ‘African Queen’ was played during the video call, Aigbe grinned and said: “Don’t tell anybody o. For a very long time, I had a crush on 2baba.”
Mercy also revealed that she admired Sola Sobowale and Liz Benson before she came into the acting industry. She said: “Coming into the industry, there were two people I admired a lot— Liz Benson and Sola Sobowale. Liz Benson was just so beautiful and she still is. I absolutely loved her back then. I also loved the way Sola Sobowale interpreted her roles. She inspires me whenever I see her on a movie set.”
While talking about her first encounter with Sola Sobowale, she said: “Before I got into the industry, I admired Sola Sobowale because she knows her onions. One day, I got a call to come on set for a movie titled, ‘Ohun Oko So Mi Da’.
“The movie was produced by Aunty Sola and I was shivering when I got to the set. I asked myself, ‘Would I be able to act in the presence of my role model?’ I went to a corner and prayed to God and told myself, ‘This is my opportunity. I shouldn’t allow Aunty Sola overshadow me. I should let my star shine.’
“Unfortunately for me, in that particular scene, I wasn’t meant to talk at all. I acted the role of her husband’s secretary and was dating her husband. She came to my character’s house to warn her. I was not supposed to say anything but I thought that as an up-and-coming actress, she would just kill my ‘star’ if I didn’t say anything. Guess what I did. I gave myself lines. As she was ranting, I was reacting to her rants. When she held me, I put my hands inside her brassiere. She just told the director to end the scene at that point, asking where they found ‘this kind of girl’.”
