In her memoir titled, ‘I am not Yvonne Nelson,’ the Actress talked about masculinity and female marginalisation in a chapter dubbed, ‘A Man’s World.’
In a revelation, the Actress spoke about Joel Duncan-Williams, the son of Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams who approached her with a marriage proposal in a rather dramatic way that ended before it even started.
According to Yvonne, their paths crossed in the year 2009. She writes; “In 2009, while I was on set shooting The Prince’s, I received a visitor. He was not my visitor, as he had come to see someone else. However, by the end of his visit, I turned out to matter more to him than the person he had come to see.
This visitor, if I should call him that because of the retinue of security guards he moved with, derived his influence from the surname he carried. His name is Joel Duncan-Williams, the son of the founder and leader of Action Faith Chapel International, Archbishop Duncan-Williams. Until that day, I hadn’t known or heard about him, but I couldn’t fail to notice his imposing presence when he showed up. Before he left the movie set, he said he had fallen in love with me.”
The son of the Action Chapel International went the extra mile to prove the seriousness of his love by bringing her lunch on set accompanied by his heavy security escort in a mini-convoy.
“While I was still unsure of what to tell him, his plans for marriage were far advanced. But something abruptly ended our friendship before it had the slimmest probability of developing further.
He paid me a visit one evening with the usual princely entourage that I had only seen in movies featuring non-state officials.
When the howling of his motorcade’s siren had adequately announced to the neighborhood that an important somebody had arrived at my household, he came in and announced his plans. He said that before the marriage could proceed, I had to go to his father to be prayed for.
The purpose of that prayer was to ensure that any demons or evil spirits present in me or my family line would be cast out,” she narrated.
“In my head, I asked whether he didn’t think my mother also needed to pray to cast out any potential bad spirits in him. Being the son of Archbishop Duncan-Williams didn’t necessarily mean he was inhabited by the Holy Spirit and guarded by angels.
And who told him that being an actress meant that I was a harbinger of malevolent spirits? At least, those who lived in our area would testify that the Manovia household used to be one of the most religious households around” Miss Nelson added
“I Am Not Yvonne Nelson” is an explosive and riveting account of a young woman who sets out to discover herself but finds out that she has been living with a false identity.
