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‘I saw him’, Bontle Modiselle opens up about her father’s suicide

Choreographer, dancer and media personality Bontle Modiselle opened up about her pain of loosing her father to suicide in an interview. The incident took place while they were sleeping in the house.

The interview clip that is now doing rounds on social media took place at 702 radio station studios with media personality and radio presenter Relebogile Mabotja.

Chatting to Relebogile about the upside of failure, Bontle shared that her ‘childhood failure’ was something she has lived with for many years adding that she thought her father’s death was her fault.

Her father passed on in 1997 when she was just six years old.

Breaking this emotional story, the mother of one shared that she dreamt her father had passed, only to have him die the next day.

She commented:

“I think I had seen him on his way to do it. I had woken up, my bedroom was closest to the kitchen. I woke up and went to see what my father was doing and he had stuff with him. He had a rope but I didn’t think anything of it, its in the wee hours of the morning so I’m not going to question him or anything like that.

The dancer added that all her father kept on saying was “I love you, I love you, just know that I love you”.

She continued:

“We wake up in the morning, it’s very strange for my mom not to see her husband but you know we could feel that something was wrong, so my mom was not ok, she felt that something was off. She couldn’t find my dad, we lived in a fairly big house at that time, she looked everywhere and couldn’t find him.

Telling the story while teary ran down her beautiful face, Bontle shared that he mom peeped through a door key hole and saw her husband hanging from a tree.

She shared that her media personality sister Refiloe was the one who had the bravery to cut him off the tree while her mother who was utterly devastated had gone off.

While crying, Bontle mentioned that the gravity of her blame game growing up was very deep, adding that she blamed herself as she felt she took her mother’s husband away from her and her sister’s dad from them.

WATCH: Bontle Modiselle shares details of her fathers death.

@5minute.moves Suicide is not a solution. #SAMA28 #swaziland #lesotho #motivationalvideo #botswana #motivational #motivation #mzansitiktok #mahikeng #dailymotivation #702 #bontlemodiselle #bontlemoloi ♬ Calm (Lofi) – Faneo sound

Also see: Celebs send their condolences following Zahara’s death

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