Veteran actress Joke Silva recently revealed how she felt when she learned she was adopted. The actress made the reveal during a chat with Funmi Iyanda on her show, ‘Public Eye.’
Silva who’s the daughter of Nigeria’s first female doctor, Late Mrs Abimbola Silva said she stumbled on the information while retrieving her passport for an aunt.
‘It something like where one is just getting to share it in the public. It is something that I found out when I was much younger. Mine was a secret adoption,” she said.
“When I mean secret it was legal but it was not something that my parents discussed. My mum’s elder sister wanted me to travel with her to Kenya and my mother was not around. She asked If I knew where my passport was and I was like yes yes yes. I know where mum keeps all the important documents.”
“Then I go to the important suitcase that has all the important documents, where I found my passport but also found my adoption certificate. It was like ‘I beg your pardon”
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Joke Silva said she found out at around age 10 or 11.
“You know how sensitive you are as a child in the sense that there was just something and you’d be like if this is something they wanted to discuss with you, they would have discussed with you,” she said.
“So after the years, we got to the point where we could discuss about it, especially myself and my mum. What was interesting was the fact that she found it easier to discuss it with my older son than she did with me.”
She shared she later had the conversation with her mum after she was confronted with not being her biological daughter by someone else.
Joke Silva’s parents are prominent Nigerians. Her father is Chief E. A Silva who was the then Babajiro of Lagos and his late wife, Dr Abimbola,
This is not the first time Silva will be speaking about her adoption. She first revealed she was adopted during the Annual Conference of Heritage Adoption Support and Advocacy Group (HASAAG) in Lagos where she was a guest speaker.
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