Veteran Nollywood actor, Hank Anuku has debunked rumour making the rounds on social media regarding his mental health.
In a viral video sighted on Leadership’s Facebook page by The New Diplomat, he said, “I just want you all to know that today is 18th of November 2022, and am speaking live from my carbarn ( a lingo for home).
Don’t forget this not an old video, this is fresh from the heaven above to the earth below, Find Jesus and leave me alone” he said.
It would be recalled that a video of the once superstar actor looking unkempt and begging for alms in Asaba hit the internet, drawing reactions.
Actress and filmmaker Shan George debunked the video, stating that the actor was on the set of a movie. She backed her claim with photos of him on the said movie set.
Interestingly, a similar video of him seeking alms from passengers in several buses on a busy road in Benin went viral.
The videos are reminiscent of his late colleague Ernest Asuzu, who was filmed begging for money and food on the streets of Oke-Afa in Isolo, Lagos, in January 2020.
62-year-old Hanks, the older brother of Miss Nigeria 1986 Rita Anuku, who died in 2015, held sway in Nollywood in the late 1990s until 2014, when he relocated to Ghana.
The ex-Delta State governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, appointed him a special adviser on Tourism and Entertainment in 2010, a role he occupied for a short time.
