By Alesia Stanford for Dailymail.Com 22:16 November 06, 2023, updated 23:18 November 06, 2023
Yvonne Orji hasn’t made it to the end yet. The 39-year-old Insecure star, who revealed she was a virgin in 2017, is still saving for marriage.
In an interview with Chelsea Handler on the Dear Chelsea podcast promoting the paperback release of her book Bambozled By Jesus in early September, her host asked her point-blank, “Are you a virgin?”
“I am,” the Vacation Friends star replied in the interview that went viral.
“Oh my God, I love this!” Chelsea, 48, exclaimed. “This is the most original guest we’ve ever had!” She continued: “So what are you, 39?”
After receiving an affirmative answer, the astonished host predicted, “Oh my God, this dam is going to break one day, baby.”
Still the same: Yvonne Orji, 39, hasn’t quite made it yet. The Insecure star, who revealed she was a virgin in 2017, is still saving herself for marriage (pictured in New York on November 3).
Yvonne responded that people should “pray for him.” “I have a lot of pent-up energy here.”
Chelsea told her, “You’ll reach your sexual peak when you start having sex, so yeah, you’ll probably need a few men, probably.”
The quick-witted stand-up laughed as she quipped: “Yvonne has gone from virgin to polyamory.”
In the question and answer phase of the podcast, where fans write or call asking for advice, Yvonne said: “What happens to a lot of women who wait… they feel like it’s the Scarlet Letter, you know – “What?” “If you want to have sex with me, or what should I say if he doesn’t like me when I tell him I’m a virgin?”
The Blackening star, who dated former NFL player Emmanuel Acho, 32, from 2018 to 2019, explained: “It’s so much pressure and I actually learned that a long time ago.” “It’s actually rude for the man to believe that he only wants sex from you.”
Yvonne was 33 years old when she spoke to People about disclosing her decision to abstain until she said yes.
“How will they ever understand if I don’t talk about it? I can stimulate your curiosity instead of everyone being in the dark and just making up their own narrative about it.”
Big question: During an appearance on the Dear Chelsea podcast, her host asked her point-blank, “Are you a virgin?” Big question: “I am,” the Vacation Friends franchise star replied in the interview that went viral. Energy: After receiving an affirmative answer, the astonished host predicted, “Oh my God, this dam is going to break one day, baby.” Yvonne responded that people should “pray for him.” “I have a lot of pent-up energy here” (pictured in Los Angeles in December 2022)
The Emmy nominee, who has spoken about her experience growing up as an immigrant in the United States after her family moved to Maryland from Nigeria, said it was God who told her to pursue comedy.
“When I was doing my master’s in public health, there was a pageant called Miss Nigeria American,” she said. She entered with some friends.
“Two weeks before the pageant they asked, “What talent do you have?”
She replied, “I’m an immigrant child, I don’t have one.”
“I’m like, ‘What the hell?'”
Rude: Yvonne, who dated former NFL player Emmanuel Acho, 32, from 2018 to 2019, explained: “It’s so much pressure, and I actually learned that a long time ago.” “It’s actually rude for the man to believe that all he wants from you is sex” (pictured in Los Angeles in September 2018) God: Yvonne, who played Molly Carter on “Insecure” for five seasons, said God told her to Pursue a career in comedy
“I can’t mess it up because the Nigerian in me says, ‘We have to be excellent,’ and I prayed… at that point I had already had a relationship with God for five or six years.
“I thought, ‘Hey God, I really need a solid…'” she explained of her appeal to the Almighty.
She said, “God said, ‘Do comedy.’ As if I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit saying, “Do comedy.”‘
The “Night School” star was hesitant to follow the advice, but said God told her, “Either you’re going to learn to trust me or you’re not.”
Paperback Author: The star’s book, Bamboozled By Jesus, was released in paperback in September
After she spent the next two weeks writing down what she found “weird” about the dual identity of being Nigerian and American, people laughed as she performed her performance.
This gave her the courage to focus on a career in entertainment instead of medicine.
In April, Yvonne secured a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television to develop scripted drama and comedy series for cable and streaming.
“As I laid out my vision for shows that connect the entire diaspora, the excitement I felt let me know this was the right home for me this season,” she wrote alongside the announcement on social media.