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RTE’s Baz Ashmaws has opened up about her anger after learning of her father’s death six months later.
He shared the tragic reason why he didn’t find out about his late father’s passing until half a year later, and spoke about the experience.
Baz appeared on Brian Dowling’s ‘Death Becomes Him’ podcast, where he spoke about the death of his father, Mohammed Ussri Ismaill.
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The DIY SOS host explained that he and his father had a “tiered” relationship.
He said: “My dad and I had this back and forth relationship where I lived with him when I was 15 years old after my grandfather died. I went to Cairo and lived with him in Cairo for a few years.
“We became partners, he was a lot of fun and he made me laugh a lot and I made him laugh a lot, but there were certain things that he couldn’t get over.
“I asked him very direct questions like, ‘Why would you leave and why would you do this?'”
He added: “Whatever happens over the years when I turned 18/19, I was in Cairo and we had a massive fight, I think I was actually 20 years old, and we had a huge fight, like a massive one.
“I decided, ‘Fuck it, I’m done with him,’ and I was living in Sydney and then I moved to London. And then he died and I found out when I was 21.”
The RTE star said that while he was angry at first, he has since ‘come to terms’ with the sad experience.
He continued: “He was angry, he was angry more than anything else. He had passed away six months before I found out.
“In Islam, they bury very fast and someone was in charge of tracking me down and of course I was all over the world.
“So when I got to Cairo I was furious and the people were very solemn.
“They have this thing in Islam where you don’t speak ill of the dead and I was like, ‘Well, you can forget I’m ready here to straighten the shit.
“I think I was so mad because I wanted to have a fight with him. I wanted to go out with him and I never made it, and with that I loved him quite a bit and I guess I felt robbed of that.
“And that’s what you have to remember when someone leaves, is that all the things you wanted to say, all the things you wanted to ask, those conversations that you needed to have, they are just gone and you are desperately trying to get other people’s stories and Putting things together yourself. It took me a long time to accept all that. “
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