Seasoned actor Segun Arinze has explained reason why he took a break from acting.

In an interview with media personality,Chude Jideonwo, Arinze spoke about how being stereotyped as a ˜bad boy made him bow out of acting.

Arinze discussed his success in the Nollywood film Silent Night (1996), which helped him become well-known for his depiction of Black Arrow.

But he also talked about how portraying him as a bad guy in movies broke his mental health and made him give up acting.

There was a time I took a hiatus from acting when people were casting in that mold of bad boy, bad boy and it began to affect my psyche and all that, Arinze said.

He also spoke to Chude for the first about his divorce from the popular actress, Anne Njemanze.

I stayed out of marriage after the first one collapsed. I stayed out for like 12 years before I remarried, he said.(The Nation)