‘My Mother Was A Rascal’ says veteran Nollywood actor Keppy Ekpeyong.

Keppy Ekpeyong Bassey, a veteran Nollywood actor, has spoken out about his early memories, describing his mother as a rascal.

According to Citi News, the actor stated in an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo that his father was a disciplinarian who would cry when scolding and spanking his children.
Despite this, they had an interactive relationship.

Ekpeyong, on the other hand, described his mother as a rogue since she frequently visited him at university with bottles of brandy and rolls of cigarettes.
According to the actor, his childhood was enjoyable since his family communicated openly, something he instilled in his children.
He stated,

“My father was someone who would scold you and cry as he’s spanking you; why did you do that, you shouldn’t do this’ and then he was a military officer we had guards at the gate and everything, and then when he spanks his kids, he’s the one crying, but we had that kind of interactive relationship.

“My mum? Rascal. Oh! My mum was a rascal, everybody knew even my friends know till tomorrow. When I was in the University and she’ll come visit, she’ll come with bottles of brandy, and rolls of cigarettes.

“She’ll sit down with us. Because I lived off campus she’ll light a stick of cigarette and call everybody, ‘come let’s drink and stuff. So it was easy to speak with my parents, it was fun.

Now I’m grown, I have children of my own and then we have some of their friends stay over and they think it’s easier to speak with us than their folks and I don’t understand how it works in other homes.

Because with my kids, my son can walk up to me and pull my ears and say, ‘old man with your big ears’ and I wouldn’t think anything about it, you know.

But there are some people who see it and they are cringe and they are afraid because they can’t and wouldn’t dare relate with their folks that way.

“We also have come to find out that if you close particular doors of communication between you and your children, you’ll be really shocked at who you think your children are because they would hide behind those closed doors and you don’t want to know when you get in.”