Akingbola's personal experience in the foster care system helped to inspire some of his “Bel-Air” character Geoffrey's storyline.
Jimmy Akingbola says he can now sympathize with why his mother gave him to child services when he was 2 years old.
His personal experience in the foster care system helped to inspire some of his “Bel-Air” character Geoffrey's storyline — specifically the part about Geoffrey's son who was adopted by another family and later comes back into his life — an aspect that Akingbola wanted included. His father disowned him, divorced his mother and kicked them both out while keeping the other three children. His mother later dropped Akingbola off at child services. He was then placed with the Crowe family, whom he lived with until he was 16.
But on a later visit to Nigeria, his dad said,"I've been a father figure to you, but I'm not your father," Akingbola recalled in the documentary.But after his father agreed to a DNA test, Akingbola says his father never returned his calls to confirm it. “They would be called a woke family,” Akingbola says, noting that his foster mother listened to reggae music while his foster brothers listened to Luther Vandross and rappers NWA, Run DMC and the Fresh Prince, also known as Will Smith who later starred in"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," the series that “Bel-Air” is based on.
"I am here because of both families, so I can’t dismiss anybody," he says."I used to yearn to be with my biological family. I remember in my teens to early 20s, I got to the point where, if I’m yearning for that, what does this look like, this loving foster family, my family unconditional love that's been there for me?"
In the documentary, his two remaining biological siblings say Akingbola"had it better" because he grew up with a"loving family" in a"safe space," because their space at home"was dangerous."
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