WILBRODA TALKS CUTTING OFF FAKE FRIENDS AND DEALING WITH ENTITLED RELATIVES 

Actress and radio personality Wilbroda says she dropped her fake friends after she realised they were only there for the fun times. Speaking in an interview with Buzz Central, the actress said she was surrounded by friends who would praise her just to keep her around. 

“When you are at your peak you get different friends, a new crew checks in and it’s a crew that just praises you. If you ever have a friends who praise you all the time, they are not your friend. Those were the kind of friends that I had and we would sit and drink, most of the time I was the one who would foot the bills and they would praise me, It got to a point where if I depleted my daily bank limit, I would borrow to continue paying for the drinks. That was the kind of life that I was living at that time,” said Wilbroda. 

However, she decided to stop hanging out with them, “But one day I sat and thought, ‘Jacquey this is going to destroy you and your kid is seeing it’ because it was almost daily. Everyday there was a plan with friends. That was the kind of drinking that I was into and that’s why I decided to take a break for two years and all my fake friends disappeared and I gained actual friends,” she stated. 

Wilbroda also talked about dealing with entitled relatives, “I have learnt to say no. I’m not afraid to say no. No is an answer and I don’t have to explain myself. When they call me, and say they I need this or that, I tell them, ‘I can give them some amount and the rest they sort it out. And when I have and I don’t want to give it’s still okay. Freedom comes when you are able to say no.” she said.

The actress discussed how her life changed after the covid-19 pandemic,”I have been on 50 percent salary for the last two years and a part from that, gigs that used to come often don’t come anymore. From around October I had end of the year gigs lined up and I would make Sh600,000 in a week because I had a lot of gigs but that doesn’t happen anymore.

Sometimes I sit and I can’t believe that this is actually me. I would got to the supermarket and I never had a shopping list, I would pick whatever pleases my eye but now I have a list and you won’t find me misusing money. Covid-19 came with a lot of challenges but I choose to look at the positive things that it has brought to my life,” she said.