You may think you know someone but you should never assume that you know their life story. This always applies to celebrities in most cases, what we see in the public eye is not what always is and that’s why we’re so thankful for shows like Zaziwa.
Radio DJ and actress Thando Thabethe was recently featured on the SABC 1 talk show to open up about her life and share songs that have a special meaning to her.
Speaking to Pearl Modiadie, Thando opened up about the one event that has made her the woman she is today, she opened up about the day that her father killed himself.
Speaking to Pearl , she said: “I lost my father at 13, a very young age. I think as you grow older you realise how much you actually missed out on when you lose your father at 13… I’m yet to get married, so one day hopefully if it happens, I would have liked if he would have been there…”
Thando went on to speak about the abuse that was in her household with her father abusing her mother, then she went on to speak about the actual day he took his life.
“Honestly, it was episodes that happened constantly. Maybe once a month if we’re lucky. My dad would always pick me up from school, so that day he was late picking me up from school. Eventually he fetched me, I get home and I know immediately what’s happening. Eventually he stops, or subsides, and he says to me, the last thing he said to me was ‘go to bed, everything is gonna be fine’. So I went to bed and I believed my dad, because I loved my father.”
13-year-old Thando was then woken up by her brother who told her about their father’s death. “He had shot himself.” She says that to this day she’s still trying to figure why he did it.
“… As sick as this may sound, if that didn’t happen I wouldn’t be who I am today… It strengthened me. My father was a very strong guy, he was a very ambitious man and I know he would want nothing less of me. So it propels me and makes me work even harder. If you go through that you can pretty much go through a lot.”
Miss Thabethe also spoke about another man in her life, her boyfriend. We must say that the two are one of the cutest couples we’ve ever seen really, with Thando constantly showing her man love on her Instagram page. “He’s a nice guy.” The two met on a boat cruise and well we guess the rest is history because they seem very happy with each other.
