She went on to say that incidents like the murder of Junior Pope are all too common in Nollywood.
Kadiri remembers nearly drowning during filming, and thinks about the fear the actor “must have felt in the last moments of his life.”
“I couldn’t use life jackets because I had to film,” she says.
“I asked Tim if he was okay and he said the canoe was okay. So I got in the boat, they started rowing, and the canoe landed in the river.”
She was rescued by being grabbed by a colleague who had fallen into the water.
The star, who has more than six million Instagram followers, is now calling for change.
But she says she understands actors' temptation to continue doing potentially unsafe work.
“We all do crazy things for the love of this job. We do things we wouldn't normally do.
“As you grow, you learn to put your own needs first. It’s not that I don’t like the work, but if something goes wrong, that’s the end of it.”
Kadiri says safety is an industry-wide issue, but while larger, well-funded production companies can take action, smaller companies cannot afford the additional costs.
In order to improve this, it was suggested that a safety regulatory agency that can bring people to the filming site should be established.
“The director is thinking of creating content, and the actor is thinking of including a character, so let’s make another body. I think he could save me a lot of stress.”
Actor Chidi Dike said Junior Pope's death was “a wake-up call for everyone.”
He agrees that “safety was not taken very seriously” but notes that some improvements have been made.
He noticed that directors and producers were now trying to keep filming from continuing late into the night. In the past, this meant returning home during dangerous night hours.
“Everything is dangerous… driving very fast. “One time I came home too late and almost had an accident,” he told the BBC.
“But it’s better now.”
It's an unexpected legacy for a vibrant actor with a vast catalog of films, but Junior Pope's final video may make Nollywood a safer place to work.
Additional reporting by Emily Horler, Alex Rhodes and Chimezie UcheAgbo.
