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I will do another movie about my HIV negative status if… - Joyce Dzidzor Mensah

By MyJoyOnline
General News I will do another movie about my HIV negative status if - Joyce Dzidzor Mensah
DEC 16, 2014 LISTEN

Joyce Dzidzor Mensah, who shocked the nation Monday by declaring that contrary to popular belief, she is not HIV positive, says she wouldn't hesitate to do a movie about her story.

Dzidzor in 2013 produced and starred in a movie about her real life story of how she contracted HIV and how she did not allow stigmatization, scorn, and molestation to dampen her spirit .

The movie, 'My Cross Roads', premiered at the National Theatre on Friday, October 4, 2013 and received rave reviews. Apart from her, other stars who played various roles in the movie are Ekow Smith Asante, John Dumelo and Vicky Zugah.

A year after producing the movie, Dzidzor who has been an HIV Ambassador in Ghana for the past six years, says the movie was based on a lie because she is not HIV positive.

Reacting to accusations that what she did amounts to public deceit, the actress, unfazed by the public criticism, told Myjoyonline.com in an interview that, “that is what everybody is asking, whether it is not public deceit and I'm using this opportunity to apologise to the public. But whether it was public deceit or not I used it for a good purpose.”

She said actors who appeared in the movie were paid fully for their roles and refuted allegations that she benefited from sponsorship for the movie because of her claims that she was HIV-infected person.

According to Dzidzor 'My Cross Roads' has been given to a marketer and that she is “not the one in charge of the movie now. I don't think the movie is out in the public.”

Reacting to assertions that she is making money illegally with the movie, the campaigner said she is not going to make money out of it because she took loans from banks to produce it and she has to pay back.

“I borrowed money, I took loans from banks to do the movie so when I was showing the movies around the monies that I was able to gather were what I used to pay off my debt and even when I gave the movie to a marketer what I got was something small,” she revealed.

Asked what her future plans are, Dzidzor said she would place herself in the hands of God but maintained she wouldn't hesitate to produce another movie to tell a story of how she faked her HIV status. “If I have financial means why not,” she said.

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  Story by Ghana | Myjoyonline.com | Ernest Dela Aglanu (Twitter: @delaXdela / Instagram: citizendela)

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