
As is rare, Top Story moderator Grida Duma spoke about her son Darien while she was a guest on the show "Goca dhe Gra".
"He is an individual of extraordinary character whom I admire," Duma said of her son.
Grida Duma: I have not stopped doing a task with myself, his freedom, I have a problem with the Albanian model, of children's dependence on parents, especially when the parent is someone, in society there is someone, the child can present himself with the name of the parent who is someone and receive something more.
Darien hasn't appeared in public with me for years, because his discomfort with saying in public that I'm a boy started four or five years ago. If at the age of 14 he enjoyed this, now even when we're in the car together and there are people who greet me from the window, he lowers his head and looks at his phone, and I let him know with a few gestures that this is your space, my space is another.
He is an individual of extraordinary proportions in character whom I admire. This does not mean that every time I say no to admiration as a mother, as an individual, not because he is my child. Every time I tell him this, I tell him that this does not change at all the way I consider myself an authority before you. I now do not ask him where he is, what he is doing, does he go out in the morning or has his own routine, we have had some time that I have not asked him at all because I want to ask him from the toxin of the Albanian mentality where we are infinitely interconnected in dimensions that there is no mental hygiene to understand that when you are an adult you will go and fight your own battle.
Were you a strict mother?
Grida Duma: Not at all, everything I am in public, I am not in private life.
How are you in your private life?
Grida Duma: According to me, I am a comfortable person, not that I am not demanding, but I love home, the most comfortable environment for a person.