Anna Jobling's mum admits to slapping her
Compiled MARTIN CARVALHO, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
ARIZ Arop has admitted to slapping actress Anna Jobling, but it was to educate her daughter, Kosmo! reported.
She dismissed claims of abuse, saying that she had slapped Anna across the face because her daughter had crossed the line and was rude towards her.
'I had hoped that my child would be good and take care of us. But Anna has strayed from the path and changed a lot.
'After she had become popular, had a fan club, a lawyer and was being taken care of by a management company, I became meaningless to her,' she said.
Ariz said her relationship with her daughter, whose real name is Anna Ellisa Gustin Jobling Abdul Rahman, soured for quite some time, mainly due to interferences by third parties.
'Anna and I are always angry (at each other). There is always interference by the management and fan club administration,' she claimed.
> A family from Seri Kembangan have expressed their anger over the theft of the kepuk (grave border), headstone and river stones at their late mother's grave.
'My siblings and I have done our best to take care of the grave, but now they're stolen,' said Melati Abd Ghani after discovering the loss of the items at her mother's grave at Sungai Ibor Muslim Cemetery in Pedas, Negri Sembilan.
The incident drew public attention after Melati shared the family's experience on social media involving her mother, Rahmah Yaakob's burial site.
The 48-year-old said her family's intention in placing a kepuk (a low concrete or stone border) around their mother's grave was to prevent soil erosion.
She hoped the cemetery would be better monitored to prevent future thefts.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
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