Veteran Nollywood actor, Chinedu Ikedieze has revealed that the death of colleague, Ada Ameh broke him and the entire cast of the popular sitcom, ‘The Johnsons.’
Daily Post recalls that Ada Ameh died on July 17th, 2022, in Warri, Delta State, barely two years after losing her only child, Ladi Ameh.
Until her death, Ada Ameh played the role of Emu; the matriarch of the Johnsons’ family in the eponymous series.
Speaking in a recent interview with Chude Jideonwo, Ikedieze who played the role of Efe, the first son of the family in the sitcom, said the late Ameh was like a mother to them, stressing that she took her character as a mother in the series off the screen.
He said, “It was very hard [for me when I heard that Ada Ameh has passed]. You know, Ada was like a mother. She took that [Emu] character off the screen. Even outside production, I have met her severally outside and people would tell her, ‘See your pikin.’
“So, it [her death] was like losing a part of me. That was the least information or news I wanted to hear. That was the biggest shock of our lives; all of us on ‘The Johnsons.’ It broke us forever.
