|What are some of his regrets when he was an alcoholic?
"I don't like to regret, I'm more like I live and learn"
Explaining his statement, Jimat told Presenter Ali
"There are a lot of mistakes but I learned from them. In a sense they made me better, apart from music, I don't discuss my issues"
He paused and opened up about being an absent father
"but there was a time I was you know like when you are a father you are supposed to be in your child's life. So I was more financial not physical. Like I hadn't seen my kids in months and its not a big thing. I would send money . I think I was in a shell by myself"
Jimwat explained the absence had to do with fear of his child seeing him drunk
"Like maybe if someone talked to me utamambiwa kitu na baby mama, but utatafuta reason ya ku make hio bad good na the fact that I provide. Even when you are told to see the child I'm like mpe simu. I mean the kid is like two years nini at least if I was there ingekuwa poa."
Jimwat regrets his actions as a father
"Thinking about it, it wasn't like I was hakunaga msee huwa too busy coz most of the time I wasn't too busy probably niko na hang down coz somehow psychologically unafeel utalet huyo mtoi down if they see you maybe with a hangover and everything."
Jimwat has now been sober 7 years and is upbeat about everything
"so in my mind I told myself to avoid my child kukaa mbali nisi chome. Bora I do the right thing ni hustle namshugulikia. So I think ku lose out on hio time and the fact that vile probably life yangu vile nilipanga that time would have gone differently."
Adding
"But I don't regret it coz the fact that I'm sober seven plus years and it got to a point someone asked me why I don't have any more desire to drink. It's not easy for me to relapse but it's not impossible but it's not easy "
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