This
will almost bring tears to your eyes. It brought tears to mine. Mr Seun
Oloketuyi ( a journalist) went to visit the sick actress at home and
she told him alot. Read below;
Ngozi
Nwosu is dying. She has lost it all; weight, strength and vigour but
not her talent and deep sense of humour which she displayed during the
over one and a half hours we spent together recently. Her emotions
ranged from profound despair to occasional outbursts of laughter at her
own jokes.
When
i got a call from the organisers of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire to
come play in the special Celebrity Edition last week, i did not know it
was the cause of our Dear Ngozi i will be playing for until I got there.
The Director revealed this to me few minutes before recording began as
Ngozi sauntered in.
One
of the first signs that things were no longer right with Ngozi was the
fact that we had to delay recording because while everybody else was
virtually fanning themselves due to the studio lights, Ngozi was
shivering from cold so much that the producers had to get her cardigans.
I was flustered.
When
the programme eventually got underway, Ngozi still helped to answer
some questions. She summoned every ounce of strength in her body to look
good for the cameras. Then, it occurred to me that she might be
withering, with life slowly ebbing away from her before our very eyes,
that acting talent is still intact. As we made our way out of the studio
after the recording, she turned to me, despair etched on her brows as
her eyes glistened with tears, and said, “Seun, do you know I was here
(WWTBAM) few years back to play this game for Samanja and I didn’t know
that I will be here years later for people to play for me to survive.
See life.” She burst into tears. I fought back tears myself. I had never
been so close to crying in a long while but Ngozi’s story will break
the steeliest of hearts.
Moments
later, we sat down to talk in the ante-room of the studio. Her nurse
told me that despite the fact that she has lost half her original
weight, she was better than three months back when she could not even
get up from bed in her Surulere, Lagos apartment. “Thanks to God and
medical attention, she is willing to give living again a chance by
fighting,” the nurse said.
When
we probed further on what exactly her ailment is, Ngozi wouldn’t say
but instead invited me to her home. Last Sunday, I was Ngozi’s guest,
where she showed me results of tests stating that she had kidney and
heart-related issues. I spent hours in her house as she led me by the
hand through the whole gamut of her illness. She told me she decided to
divulge everything because of widespread speculation that she was HIV
positive. “I don’t have AIDS o,” she declared.
The
bottom line now is that Ngozi needs N6m to treat herself abroad. And
she needs it fast. Ngozi is willing to live longer but we have to
support her.
You
can send your widow’s mite to Ngozi Nwosu GTB 0052851673. May God bless
you and all that you take important as we rally round to save beautiful
actress.
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