Those who killed my mother because of my fame- Sir Shina Peters

In a new interview with Vanguard, Juju musician revealed how his mother died because of his fame...

What seems irreplaceable that music has taken from you?

My mother. I lost my mother to stardom. She read about my paternity and what she read shocked her. Let me quote her and may her gentle soul rest in peace (amen). “I will now give a child to two f

athers? impossible”. After saying this, she went down, collapsed and was in coma for six months before she died. It was a huge price to pay.

Please share the story with us?

My mother had a daughter for a man before marrying my father. But this man also bears the same name with my biological father. She met my father three years after separating from the man. My father married my mother with the daughter and took care of her as his own daughter.

However, some journalists met with this man and asked him if he was my father. He answered in the affirmative being a Yoruba man with the candid belief that if my father could accommodate and take care of his daughter like his, then he is also my father.

So, what steps did you take to correct the false news?

At first, I was so bitter but I had to let it go. I had friends who were journalists.