Popular Nollywood actor Daniel Etim-Effiong has admitted to having been a womanizer during a brief period in his life, describing the experience as a valuable learning process.

The engineer-turned-actor made this revelation during a recent interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, where he candidly discussed his past relationships and the lessons he learned from dating multiple women simultaneously.

When asked directly if he was a womanizer before marriage, Etim-Effiong initially sought clarification on the definition before acknowledging, "Maybe there was a time in my life I was. Definitions would differ, but in that definition, maybe there was a period in my life that I was, I wouldn't say for long periods of my life. Maybe for some certain periods that I explored. So, perhaps."

The actor reflected positively on these experiences, describing them as educational. "Yes, they were periods of learning for me. If I learned, then they were good periods," he stated.

Lessons on Fulfillment and Commitment

Etim-Effiong shared that his main takeaway was discovering that certain lifestyle choices don't necessarily bring the fulfillment one might expect. "I learned that certain things don't necessarily bring you the fulfillment that you think they would. On paper, it feels like that is the life, but experientially maybe not," he explained.

The actor now uses his experiences to advise young people about relationship habits and their long-term consequences. He emphasized that behaviors developed before marriage don't automatically change after wedding vows are exchanged.

"I tell young people a lot that it is cool to be a player but if you develop that habit or lifestyle, you won't automatically change overnight," he warned. "So, don't develop something you don't want to continue for the rest of your life. If you are not able to commit to one person, if you jump from one relationship to another, that won't automatically change when you marry."

He further cautioned that the inability to commit before marriage could lead to similar patterns during marital challenges. "When you marry, that muscle hasn't been developed, so you encounter one challenge and you want to immediately jump," he noted.

Etim-Effiong concluded with a stark warning about relationship patterns: "If you are the kind of person that before you got married it was easy for you to just walk away, keep different relationships, keep ladies on the string, that won't change when you get married."