When personal loss becomes blessing in disguise

Shingirai Madondo | Friday March 7, 2014 15:42

 

After losing these two people, who were so close to her, the Ghetto Artists Organisation actress was so devastated.

“I could pray non-stop for almost six hours asking God the same question ‘Why me’,” says the 25-year-old performer.

She says the experience is hard to forget.  Munyadzwe says losing the only parent fending for her and her siblings was not easy to accept.

“My mother was my hero.  She was there for me all the time. And even during the time she was on her sickbed.  She could stand up on her feet to prepare food for us. My boyfriend was my world,” says Munyadzwe, tears running down her cheek.

The way her eyes well up with emotion, tearing down her cheeks is the same way she does it on stage when performing a character that requires her to literally cry.  Unlike other performing artists, she does not struggle to shed tears when the character requires her to do so.

It is said some actors and actresses will be forced to smear Vicks under the eyes in order for them to be able to shed tears. Munyadzwe says it is true that artists are forced to do that in order for them to be able to shed tears on stage.

But she does not need to go for Vicks to shed tears. She does it even better than the ones who usually use Vicks to fulfil the role. The question that has been begging answers is how does she do it? 

“Although it was devastating to have lost my mother and boyfriend in a space of four years, I think it was a blessing in disguise,” says the former Mmei JSS student, who started her acting career in 2009.

“When I am performing a character that requires me to cry like a baby, I just think of the way I lost my mother and my boyfriend.  Tears just flow like that,” says Munyadzwe, adding that she was so close to her mother and her boyfriend.

Munyadzwe said she spent most of her time with her mother. After her passing, Munyadzwe found solace in her late boyfriend whom she could converse with over the phone for an uninterrupted three good hours.  

She joined Ghetto Artists in 2011 after a stint with Youth Health Organisation and Bopaganang Basha Theatre Group in Francistown. Her vision is to become a role model of behavioural change to school children.