Deciding To Undergo Leg Surgery Was A Difficult Choice – Omowunmi Dada

Nollywood actress, Omowunmi Dada, has come out to say that she is on a healing journey after undergoing surgery. She recently had her say via her social media page, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, she has been dealing with leg pain for so long without many people around her finding out, and that is proof that sometimes celebrities carry their burden so quietly that the world celebrates them without realizing the weight they bear.

Omowunmi added that she eventually had to make the difficult choice to get surgery, and she is presently healing.

“Sometimes, we carry our pain so quietly that the world celebrates us without realizing the weight we bear behind the scenes. I had been dealing with leg pain for so long, yet I continued to show up, walk through sets, and smile through moments—but deep down, I was weathering a storm.

Eventually, I had to make a difficult choice: I underwent surgery. The thought of losing control over the simple things we often take for granted—walking, using the bathroom, moving freely—was humbling.

But God… He held me. I’m still healing, but my healing is beautiful.

To my doctors , thank you for your skill and patience. To my friends who visited, called, messaged, and showed love in various ways—thank you.

To my family, your strength became my own.

And to anyone experiencing private pain: I see you. I feel you. I pray healing finds you.

Let’s learn to extend grace. Not everything you see online reveals the whole story. Be kind. Be gentle. Life unfolds behind the scenes,” she wrote.

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.