{"id":40664,"date":"2025-08-02T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40664\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:30:07","slug":"i-made-every-mistake-my-father-made-clarence-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40664\/","title":{"rendered":"I made every mistake my father made &#8211; Clarence Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nigerian music video director Clarence Peters has revealed that he forgave his father, veteran musician Shina Peters, even before having a conversation with him after realising that he had made every single mistake his father made.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a recent episode of the Afropolitan podcast, Peters disclosed that he truly became an adult after the realisation and forgiving his dad in 2014\/2015.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old explained that the reason his own mistakes weren\u2019t as catastrophic as his father\u2019s was because of time and technology.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI made every single mistake my father made. I\u2019m just lucky that time and tech saved me from it being as catastrophic as his own. So, the moment I realised that I forgave him instantly even before we had a conversation. That would be 2014\/15. That was when I became an adult. That was when I began my journey into adulthood. I\u2019m still on the journey. You\u2019re always on the journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clarence Peters is the son of legendary musician Shina Peters and veteran Nollywood actress Clarion Chukwura.<\/p>\n<p>Peters once opened up in an interview that his mother wanted to abort him while he was in her womb but changed her mind because of her belief that he was the reincarnation of her father, whom she lost when she was 11 years old.<\/p>\n<p>In a chat with Chude in February 2025, Peters stated he would have loved to \u201cjudge my dad for how he treated my mother but I\u2019m not in a position to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said he tried not to be like his father with women \u201cbut I\u2019m not perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Popular Nigerian music video director Clarence Peters has revealed that he forgave his father, veteran musician Shina Peters,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,23429,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-40664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-clarence-peters","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}