Actor and Film Director Abel Mutua has opened up about how a lack of a father figure affected his life.
Speaking in a recent YouTube interview, Mutua said his father left him and his mother when he was still young.
The former Tahidi High actor said he was a troublesome and useless child, which he attributed to lacking a father figure.
“Me growing up I passed through some phases at some point my biological dad left us so a father figure is very important in a family.
“So when my dad left I became a useless child, I put my mum through so much, and looking back all that misbehaving was because I lacked a father figure,” he said.
As such, Mutua took valuable lessons from his father’s absence and vowed not to be like him.
“So I made the decision not to subject my kid to that coz for me God helped me to reform to get back. Right now I can’t get it wrong with my child it would hurt me a lot if I let my child go through what I went through,” he said.
Mutua said growing up without a father also affected his self-esteem.
“I will have to be there for this girl. I want to be among the first people who know whenever anything happens to her. Coz if I don’t have a relationship with her then I don’t know what she is doing out there. I don’t know who she is interacting with…it’s very dangerous…things start going south you are the last person to know which is very wrong,” he said.
