HBO star Yvonne Orji, from the hit series “Insecure,” recently opened up about how the Holy Spirit saved her when she was in the pit of her depression.
Orji hosts a podcast called Jesus & Jollof with Luvvie Ajayi, and on the week four episode, “From Bottom to Breakthrough” she opens up about her difficult journey to make it in the entertainment industry.
After being promised a hosting job for a daily TV show on an unnamed network, Orji was asked to suggest names for other shows the network needed hosts for. She gave the network a list of people she “thought would do a good job.”
What happened next was what Orji said led to her depression. “I find out through the grapevine that one of the people I suggested, they made a better, bigger offer to that person and came back and told me that they only had groundnut and banana for me for pay,” the actress said.
She continued, “I was literally looking depression in the face. I could have let it take me out, but it was just like, ‘God I’ve done everything as right as I could.’ I’m even helping other people live out their dreams when I don’t even have my dream yet.”
During this time Orji said she didn’t even have enough money for gas so that she could go to church. Orji prayed to God saying, “God if you want me to volunteer at the church I need gas money.’ And there was sometimes where I only had…
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