The mother of popular hip-life musician Okomfuo Kwaadee, known as Jerry Anaba in private life, has confirmed the open secret that the artiste smokes.

Auntie Cecilia, who made the disclosure last Saturday on Peace FM, an Accra radio station, openly said her son smokes Indian hemp, locally called “wee”, adding, that was what led to the musician’s psychological problem some time ago.

Kwaadee has for some years now been off the music scene due to a mental problem.

However reports last year indicated that he was healed by a Man of God and is now leading a normal life.

“Musicians smoke, so by all means Kwaadee also smokes wee,” she said, adding, “I believe that was what worried him.”

Kwaadee, she indicated, was introduced to smoking through bad company, but did not say whether the influence was from colleagues in the music industry or elsewhere.

By the grace of God, she said, Kwaadee has stopped smoking because “he has come to the understanding that it would not help him.”

The singer, she revealed, was now fit and lives a normal life.

She, however, could not get the son to speak on air as he was not around at the time his mom was contacted.