Deyemi Okanlawon just shared the romantic story of how he met his wife. The Nollywood actor Deyemi Okanlawon has recounted the incident during his university years when he met his wife Damilola.
This was disclosed by the actor in a recent interview with the Pulse One-on-One program. Both Deyemi and his spouse, Damilola, enrolled at the University of Lagos to earn degrees in chemical engineering. However, despite sharing the same academic path, Deyemi initially refrained from approaching her because he wanted her to greet him first. This was during what he humorously referred to as his ‘God’s gift to women’ phase.
“So what happened was, I used to see her with girls that I know because they used to hang out. You know how girls used to hang out in cliques…So they’d be walking down the hallway and I’d be walking towards them and they would stop and I would say hello to every single one of them except my wife because she won’t say hello first,” he said, laughing.
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With a coy smile, he continued: “And her cousin who was my friend said to her “can you please go get something for my friend to eat?” And she couldn’t say no and you could see the look on her face and I was basking in it.”
The turning point came when they reconnected after Deyemi became a single man after which they tied the knot.
In his words: “Then about a year later when I was single, we met again. I was working a 9-5 when we married, she got married to me as a working professional. But when we were dating I told her that I felt that there was something for me in acting and by that same year I got an acting gig. And she found herself married to an actor.”