{"id":946,"date":"2023-01-17T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=946"},"modified":"2023-01-17T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T00:10:00","slug":"started-drinking-smoking-at-age-8-dr-likee-opens-up-on-past-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"Started drinking &amp; smoking at age 8 \u2013 Dr Likee opens up on past life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;segoe ui&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;open sans&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-u style=\"box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;segoe ui&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;open sans&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 26px; position: relative;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; transform: translateZ(0px); transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"entry-thumb entered lazyloaded\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.ghpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Dr-Likee-Ras-Nene-696x392.jpg\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Dr-Likee-Ras-Nene-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ghpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Dr-Likee-Ras-Nene-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.ghpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Dr-Likee-Ras-Nene.jpg 1280w\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" height=\"392\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Dr-Likee-Ras-Nene-696x392.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Dr-Likee-Ras-Nene-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ghpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Dr-Likee-Ras-Nene-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.ghpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Dr-Likee-Ras-Nene.jpg 1280w\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 696px;\" title=\"Dr-Likee-Ras-Nene\" width=\"696\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-td-block-u style=\"box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;segoe ui&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;open sans&quot;, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: auto !important; line-height: 1.74; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 21px; padding-bottom: 16px; position: relative;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">Everybody has a life they got exposed to by circumstance in their early days. I mean to say each and everyone has a past life. It could be dirty or ugly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">Ebenezer Akwasi Antwi&nbsp;originally nicknamed Ras Nene but now Dr Likee is no different from this. He has a past life, and for the first time, he has shared and gone deep into it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">The comic actor in an interview has given a blow-by-blow account of how he entered into smoking at a tender age and later matured into peddling drugs as a big-time business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">He said at the early age of 8 he occasionally was staying with his mother\u2019s elder sister who owned a drinking spot at Tafo, one of the popular towns in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">On his visits, the woman would entrust the spot to his care and run personal errands then return back to post and sell the alcohol and cigarettes to customers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">All these while he had seen and experienced how these adults who come to the shop drink and smoke, and thus started practising what he saw with time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">Dr Likee later became a product of the environment he was exposed to. He started drinking the leftover alcohol already served to clients and joined in smoking too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">According to him, when people come to the bar and are done smoking drops it on the floor and quenches it, the fire isn\u2019t completely out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">So in that case I\u2019m compelled to pick it, hide behind the house and smoke. This was how it all started.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">Asked by the host, Delay if her Mother\u2019s sister was aware of this, dr Likee revealed that the woman knew yet she did nothing about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">It went on for years and he graduated from small-scale smoking to dealing drugs itself for so many years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\u201cI worked at a bar when I was young. Sometimes when people come to the bar and they are done smoking, I pick the last piece from the ground and hide to smoke it. That was how it all started.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Later I meet another stubborn kid who was just like me, he introduced me to weed smoking. Dr Likee (Ras Nene) disclosed to Delay.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/><\/em><\/span>.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\u201cMy mother warned and advised me to quit smoking on several occasions but I never paid heed to her,\u201d he added.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\u201cI became stubborn because I was earning some money from my scraps trade and the smoking habit made things worse.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;\">My mother would sit me down severally to advise me but I wouldn\u2019t listen and gradually I was introduced to wee by a friend,\u201d he told Delay.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">The Ghanaian comic actor while speaking also admonished parents and guardians to desist from sending children on errands to buy them hard drugs and cigarettes for use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;\">\u201c<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Never send your child to buy cigarettes or even smoke in their presence<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Source: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghpage.com\/\">www.ghpage.com<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><br \/><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; transform: translateZ(0px); word-break: break-word;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; height: auto !important; margin-bottom: 21px; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody has a life they got exposed to by circumstance in their early days. 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