"My Mother Went To The Grave With 90 Per Cent Of My Secrets" – Chioma Akpotha Reveals

Chioma Akpotha, Nollywood actress, always remembers May 22 of every year as a day she had  set aside to celebrate the life of her mother who passed on about five years ago.

The popular actress in a chat recently told Saturday Beats that she was so close to her mother as the first daughter that her mother went to her grave with 90 per cent of her secrets.

The highly principled Nollywood actress whose eyes were filled with tears as she spoke, recalled the way her left-handed mother used to deal with her whenever she do something wrong, but despite all the slaps and beatings she received, it never affected the love she had for her mother.

See what she said: 

“It has been five years that my mother has died and till date, I still miss everything about her. Being the first daughter, she was my best friend but whenever I misbehaved, she hardly used a cane on me, instead, she would use her hand, slippers, pestle, among other things. She was left handed but I always forgot that aspect whenever she was beating me, so there were times that I would expect the slap on the right cheek and would have guarded the right side of my face only for the slap to land on the left side. I miss her a lot. My mother went to her grave with about 90 per cent of my secret and that is how close I was to my mother. She was practically my backbone. When I had my first son, my mother stayed with us for about a year. Although she had a restaurant at the time, she abandoned it to look after my child and would accompany me to the various movie sets I had to attend. She was running her business from the movie location. I miss everything about her. There is a saying that Igbo people have which states, ‘the day you lose your mother is the day you lose your God. Her death has thrown me into the open but I believe she is now an angel who watches over me from up above and she is fighting for me,” she said.

The Nollywood screen goddess disclosed to Saturday Beats that although she was flogged several times by her mother, it was not because she was a stubborn child. She disclosed further that although she joined the Nigerian movie industry as a teenager, she never dared to embrace any vice because of the kind of upbringing her mother gave her.

There is a saying that Igbo people have which states, "the day you lose your mother is the day you lose your God. Her death has thrown me into the open but I believe she is now an angel who watches over me from up above and she is fighting for me,” she said.


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