Quadri, who married Sadiat in 1989, confirmed during the interview that his wife was fully aware he was in romantic relationships with actresses he worked with on set. The disclosure was not framed as a confession but as a straightforward description of how his household operates.
“My wife knows I’m dating other actresses,” Quadri said. “When we finish shooting sometimes, and some of the actresses I’m dating come to sleep in my house, my wife still gives them food and entertains them even though she knows they’re my girlfriends.”
He added, according to the interview, that Sadiat did not complain. That single phrase has drawn the sharpest reactions online, with many Nigerians reading it as either remarkable restraint or quiet suffering, depending on their perspective and their own experience of marriage.
Some of the actresses involved, Quadri disclosed, later approached Sadiat to gossip about his other romantic entanglements. They did not know, at the time, that she was already aware of everything. The detail placed Sadiat in a position of knowing more than the women competing for her husband’s attention, effectively making her an unseen participant in conversations she had never joined.
A friend identified only as Saje also featured in the interview. Quadri noted that Saje kept his confidences despite their close bond, a point the actor appeared to raise as evidence of loyalty within his personal circle.
The interview on African A-List ran in early October 2026. Quadri did not specify how long the pattern of bringing actresses home had continued, but the marriage itself has lasted more than three decades, dating from 1989.
Social media responses arrived quickly after clips from the interview circulated. Activist Aisha Yesufu, writing on X, turned the discussion toward the children inside that household. Her post addressed what she described as the long-term consequence of children watching that dynamic play out in their own home.
“Her sons will tomorrow be looking for wives like their mother while her daughters will dislike men,” Yesufu wrote. She said daughters were more likely to receive warnings about men from their mother, while sons would grow up romanticizing what they had witnessed.
Yesufu, whose commentary drew significant engagement, said the outcome would be children who carry the damage into adulthood. “All in all,” she wrote, “society will be dumped with broken children who become broken adults.”
The response from Yesufu shifted the conversation away from Quadri and toward Sadiat’s children, a framing that several other commentators picked up and extended. The children are not named in the source material.
Online discussions following the interview have touched on three overlapping questions: whether a spouse’s silence constitutes acceptance, whether generational norms in Nigerian marriages explain or excuse the arrangement, and what weight children carry from households shaped by that kind of open secrecy.
Quadri did not address those questions directly in the interview. His account was presented as a matter of fact about his home, not as an argument for or against any particular arrangement between married people.
Sadiat has not made any public statement in response to the interview, based on available information at the time of writing. No comment from her has been included in any version of the story circulating online, and no representative acting on her behalf has responded to requests for clarification.
The African A-List interview has not been the first time a veteran Nollywood figure has spoken openly about romantic relationships outside marriage. Quadri, who has appeared in more than two hundred Yoruba-language films over the course of his career, is regarded as one of the most prominent actors of his generation. But the specific detail of Sadiat feeding the actresses remains the element most widely quoted and most sharply debated since Yinka Quadri’s disclosure ran.
