Moses Allen, the manager of veteran Nollywood actor Hanks Anuku, has declared actor as normal after concerns about the actor’s mental health in a video emerged
The clip showed Anuku sitting by a roadside in Wuse 2, dressed casually in jeans, a black shirt and sneakers, while talking to himself and holding a disposable cup.
The footage prompted many to question whether the actor was experiencing mental health challenges.
Speaking to Premium Times, Allen dismissed the speculation, insisting that Anuku is mentally sound and in good health. He explained that the actor’s personality and creative nature are often misunderstood by the public.
“So I understand you guys might have seen a video and then care to ask. It’s better to ask than to start making presumptions like other people used to do every time. You see, Hanks is a character; he’s an actor. So most of what he does is in a different world of his own.
“He does those things, people mistake it for madness or craziness. No, an artist is actually never really normal, you understand. An artist, in the true sense of it, is actually never really normal because your presence is in a different realm, in a creative realm. You know, he does not operate in the world where we do operate. Where normal people operate. A world of, you know, rat race, where you come in the morning, you have to go and hustle for what to eat. He does not really bother and does not live in a normal world as we do.”
Allen further argued that there was nothing unusual in the video that should have led people to conclude the actor was mentally ill.
“He’s a serious man, he’s a responsible man with family, with children, and everything. So, whatever you guys see there (in the video) is just like someone trying to… What is wrong with someone sitting down by the grass and then talking to himself and having a drink? What is wrong with that? He wasn’t naked. He wasn’t abusing anybody; he wasn’t calling people names and everything. He was trying to float. Maybe he was trying to rehearse or to imagine a scenario.
“He was imaginative in that video. I don’t see anything that he did that is wrong, or that the whole world is now saying, ‘Ah, this man is mad.’ Mad for where? Like I told you, if you want, I can coordinate a conference call, and you can now even record the conversation, and now see if he sounds like a mad person, or like an artist.”
According to the manager, Anuku is currently in a better mental state than he has been in for years.
“I’ve been his manager for years. Kindly let the world know that the legend Hanks Chukwuemeka Anuku is sound and has, in fact, never been in a better mental state than now, please. He’s simply an artist, and I really wonder why the world expects artists to be like normal people.”
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Oga let us hear word. Who leaves his house to seat on grasses to have a drink. Except the video is meant to remind people of him