Bobby Brazier has opened up about his late mother Jade Goody and her take on the ‘nepo baby’ debate.
Jade tragically passed away in 2009 at the age of 27 after a battle with cervical cancer, and her death was credited with prompting a substantial increase in women attending her cervical screenings.
Bobby, 19, was just five years old at the time and revealed that he bases his memory of his mother on what others tell him about her.
speaking to The times about what he remembered about Jade, he said: ‘Not much. Maybe memories of memories. They always tell me about her and what she meant to people. I guess I know my mother through other people’s memories of my mother.
Jade has had a tumultuous relationship with fame, after being vilified for her shocking racist comments towards Indian actress Shilpa Shetty on Celebrity Big Brother in 2007.
Candid: Bobby Brazier has opened up about his late mother Jade Goody and her take on the ‘nepo baby’ debate (pictured in 2022)
Heartbreaking: Jade tragically passed away in 2009 at the age of 27 after a battle with cervical cancer, and her death was credited with prompting a substantial increase in women attending her cervical screenings (in the 2004 photo with Bobby)
Bobby said: ‘I’ve never really thought about his experience of fame. I think assuming that anyone’s experience of fame is glamorous, or that it will make you feel complete or happy, is silly. It may improve some things, but because of that it will make others worse.
Bobby is now a model and actor, most recently landing the role of Freddie Slater in EastEnders last year.
Giving his take on the current ‘baby nepo’ debate, he said: ‘Simply put, what good is a chance if you can’t deliver? I really believe in my abilities. So thank you, mom and dad, for the opportunities that come my way. But I can thank myself for believing in myself, and my dad for giving me the belief.’
Bobby also spoke about his religious beliefs, saying he believed his mother was still around, adding, “Maybe as a guide, maybe as an angel, maybe as a teacher, maybe as a protector.”
He said: ‘Like all children, you want to think that your mother would be proud of you.
Tragic: Bobby, 19, was just five years old at the time and revealed that he bases his memory of his mother on what others tell him about her (pictured in 2006)
Family: Bobby, who lives with his father Jeff Brazier, 43, brother Freddie, 18, and step-mother Kate, previously told The Sun how he thinks Jade would “love” him to “do whatever he can to to do something with my life’ after breaking away from a modeling career (pictured with Jeff and Freddie)
“I hope he’s looking down at me and smiling, probably laughing, thinking, ‘Look at Bobby lying in a field in his designer clothes.'”
Jade shocked the world in 2008 when she was told live on Indian Big Brother, Bigg Boss, that she had cervical cancer, before discovering the following year that it was terminal.
She then passed away in March, a month after marrying Jack Tweed.
Bobby’s father, Jeff, has become an advocate for mental health and grief survival not only for his two sons but for others as well, even releasing The Grief Survival Guide: How to Navigate Loss and All That Comes With It in 2017.