Nigerian music video director and filmmaker, Clarence Peters has opened up about his relationship with his father, Shina Peters, the ace juju singer.
The 41-year-old CEO of “Capital Dream Pictures” in a recent interview on “WithChude” podcast, said his father’s past mistakes, particularly in how he treated women influenced his way of handling relationships.
Clarence said his father screwed up by not doing enough to protect his mother who is the veteran Nollywood actress, Clarion Chukwura.
According to the filmmaker; his mother was blackballed by his father’s colleagues, which has a lasting impact on him.
He said, “My dad screwed up, I mean using the word screwed up is me putting it lightly because his colleagues blackballed my mum and she was already dealing with a lot of trauma from when she was young.”
“In making ‘Inside Life’, I started to discover some of the things I did not know. Episode 5 of
‘Inside Life’ is written by my cousin who went through that and so my mum went through the script and started crying because she all went through the same thing.”
“We keep forgetting that it was a different time.” My mum told me recently that he has been with women, drove some of the amazing cars, stayed in the best houses, hotels, he has had money.”
“He is approaching his 70s, death is certain because we are all going to die. All he can do now is pray to God to forgive him and that is all that he has and so we have had that conversation. My father has made mistakes that I have also made, so I can’t judge him. I can relate to the mistakes that my father has made.”
“As much as I was raised by my mother, one of my greatest fears was not to be my father to the opposite sex. I have been a version of that, so l am not a saint. So I cannot judge him. I would like to, but I am not in the position to.”
