Tuwangye was granted a place to study drama at Makerere in the year 2000, but the mother couldn’t reconcile herself to the fact that her son was going to be an actor.
“Richard had done PEM/A in A’ Level and I thought he would be an engineer. When he told me he was going to do drama, I was very annoyed and I spent two months very disappointed,” she told guests at the comedian’s reception at Silver Springs Hotel in Bugolobi on Friday.
Richard had earlier exchanged vows with his sweetheart Sharon at All Saints Cathedral in Nakasero.
The mother then asked her son for forgiveness for “being selfish.”
“I am proud of you, Richard. Maybe if I had supported you earlier, you would even be bigger than you are now. Please forgive me,” she said.
When it was Tuwangye’s turn to speak, he said he forgave his mother very long ago, even when she hadn’t yet reconciled to the fact that he was going to do drama.
The comedian’s dad also narrated how he tried to stop him from pursuing drama at Makerere. “I knew Prof. Ssengendo the dean of the school of Fine Art at Makerere and we came all the way from Masaka, to ask him to enrol Richard in the Fine Art school. But when we reached Makerere, Richard asked me, ‘But Daddy, why do a different course when I am going to end up in drama?’ I gave up on him,” he told an amused crowd.
Both parents of the Fun Factory comedian agreed that cracking jokes came naturally to him, sharing tales of how he would crack them up when he was a child. One such story was when Tuwangye was knocked by a car and when they went to see him in hospital, he told them he had knocked a car.