Cape Town – South African actress Minnie Dlamini has opened up about her private life, saying she is trying to find herself after getting married at such a young age and how unprepared she was for it.
Minnie appeared on DJ Fresh’s What A Week (WAW!) Podcast and it gave her the perfect platform to speak about her former relationships, her upcoming movie and what the future holds.
She split from her husband Quinton Jones in 2022 and briefly made a return to the public eye but can’t seem to escape the subject.
She believed that marriage was the next step in her life after her early success, despite not being intellectually mature and not fully developed as a person.
“I was 26 when I got married … You don’t really know yourself. I think for me I misconstrued having success early in my life and having acquired certain type of assets to think ‘okay cool, now the next step is marriage’.
“Instead of actually realising that I might not have reached the maturity level in my psyche that I might have needed to have gone through.
“Now I am 32 turning 33 and I’m actually starting to rediscover who Minnie is alone, and it’s a very interesting journey. It’s not lonely, but it is difficult realising in spaces and places I probably shouldn’t have been in,” she said.
Fresh also asked her about the misconceptions about her previous relationship with former Bafana goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune, whom she dated in 2014.
“The worst misconception is that Khune lobola’d me, that is the worst one. I hate it! Hate it. People still think it’s true. It wasn’t even a conversation,” she said.
Fresh also inquired about her role in her new movie, The Honeymoon, which is currently out in cinemas countrywide.
“I absolutely love it, in the film (’The Honeymoon’) I play a married woman with two kids … which is complete far-fetched from my life, and now I’m playing someone single, which I am, and looking for love, which I am not, so it’s pretty cool,” she said.
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Compiled by Matthew Petersen
