Chioma Akpotha still misses everything about her mother, five years after she passed away.

The Nollywood star revealed how she was close to her mother during her interview with Saturday Beats, sharing memories of her upbringing and how she supported her career in the beginning. “It has been five years that my mother has died and till date, I still miss everything about her,” said Akpotha. “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.” Chioma Akpotha is presently one of the most popular actress in Nollywood. She won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role in 2007 and was also honoured with Afro Hollywood award for best actress in 2010. She continued on the support of her late mom, saying: “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.”

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