Ghanaian actress, Beverly Afaglo has said she lost a movie role because she went home to breastfeed her baby.
The actress stated this in a recent interview with Naa Ashorkor, Ghanaian radio host, on Asaase Radio 99.5 FM’s ‘Between Hours’.
According to the actresss, she received calls from her mother to return home and attend to her little daughter while she was on the set of a television series.
Afaglo said she went home to attend to her child because the production team had delayed in shooting the series’ last scene.
She said “I remember my first child, I was breastfeeding and normally I do breastfeed exclusively till the sixth month when it ends then I am done.
“So it was like the end to the seventh month, and I think that week, I was doing my first job. And I went on set and I think we were supposed to finish that last scene at 5 pm, and we waited until 11 pm.
“My mother was calling that my daughter doesn’t want to sleep, and that she has given her milk and everything but she doesn’t want to sleep. And I was worried, everybody was complaining.
“I wasn’t the only one who complained, other people were saying they needed to go back to their shops, while other complained about mosquitoes.
“Then the next moment, about a week after, I think, a colleague called me to say the producer actually said ‘you had to go home to breastfeed your child’ so because of that, he wrote me off. And it was a series, he wrote me out.
“I apologized. And I wasn’t even the only one complaining but because mine was a complaint about breastfeeding my child, I lost the job”
The 37-year-old actress is married Ghanaian singer, Eugene Kwadwo Boadu also known as Choirmaster and they have two daughters.
