Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha Cries As She Remembers Late Mother

Popular Nollywood actress Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha who lost her mother about 5 years ago has remembered her.

She recently narrated to Saturday Beats how her mother was her pillar of support and #1 confidant.

With tears in her eyes, she recalled the way her mother used to deal with her whenever she erred but despite all the slaps and beatings she received, it never affected the love she had for her mother.

“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.