The former Machachari shared a deeply personal story about his mother’s battle with cancer while speaking on the 1clubofficial podcast, on an episode titled “How to Find your Life Purpose From a Monk – Ian Nene.”
Nene recalled how his mother summoned him back home to Kenya from the UK where he is studying and informed him of her cancer diagnosis.
“My mom called and told me that she had some news for me. Obviously, I rushed home. My mom never really talks like that. If she does talk like that, you know that there is something up,” Nene said.
“So I went home, she sat me down and told me that she went to the hospital. She got a body scan, and they found out that she had cancer,” he added.
The actor said he struggled to cope with the news about his mother’s cancer diagnosis before he came to terms with the reality.
Nene first publicly disclosed his mother’s cancer diagnosis in 2022.
He recounted how, upon learning the news, his immediate reaction was a profound fear that his mother’s life was at risk. This fear plunged him into a spiral of drug abuse.
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