THE Greatest Dancer’s Oti Mabuse’s secret heartbreak after her brother killed himself aged 18 has been revealed.
The 28-year-old Strictly Come Dancing professional has won a legion of fans for her bubbly and outgoing personality.
However her smiles mask the fact her family were left devastated when her older half-brother Neo took his own life while they were growing up in South Africa.
Oti’s family – which includes sisters Motsi and Phemelo – lived in a township called Mabopane close to the capital, Pretoria.
Motsi, who is also a professional dancer on the German version of Strictly called Let’s Dance, revealed his death led the family to be shunned by their superstitious neighbours in the township.
The Mirror reveals she wrote in her book Chili in the Blood: My Dance Through Life, which has been published in Germany: “He killed himself with a poison.
“And because the people of Africa are very religious and superstitious, something bad arose in our neighbourhood.
“With the suicide of Neo, our family was seen as one where there was a negative energy.”
Motsi explained how Neo was born to their mother Dudu when she was just a teenager, and a different father.
When Dudu met and married the girls’ father Peter Mabuse, the family’s fortunes started to turn around, but Neo struggled to adjust.
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And as racial tensions flared throughout their childhood in South Africa, Motsi recalled the township riots and how that affected her family.
She said: “We always knew when riots had broken out because we weren’t allowed to leave the house, even to go to school.
“Then the next day, when I was back on the school bus, I could see it was still burning everywhere and cars had been knocked over.
“I think all the changes had overwhelmed [Neo] a little bit, everything had seemed difficult to him.”
Neo’s suicide came soon after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990, which marked the start of major changes in South Africa, and just months after Oti had been born.
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