Clarence Peters, son of actress Clarion Chukwura and musician Shina Peters, opened up about his father’s past mistakes during an interview on the WithChude podcast.
He expressed that his father’s actions have affected him deeply and vowed never to treat women the same way.
Clarence also lamented that Shina Peters allowed colleagues to blackmail his mother, Clarion Chukwura, a renowned actress now aged 60, reflecting on the lasting impact of those events.
Clarence Peters 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 discovered 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 also 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 amazing cars, stayed in the best houses, and hotels, and 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 I am not a saint. So I cannot judge him. I would like to but I am in the position to.”
