About childhood and recent disappearance.. 10 humanitarian statements by Ahmed Helmy with Anas Bukhash

In a session of statements from the heart, as usual on the Abs Talks programme, with journalist Anas Bukhash, the artist Ahmed Helmy spoke about several glimpses of his life.

Below we review the artist’s most prominent statements with Anas Bukhash:

1. In describing himself, he said, “I have never known who I am. I am a mass of contradictions. I do not know what I like. I do the same thing but I want to do the opposite. I like to wake up early but I sleep late. I do not have a specific taste in certain things.”

Ahmed Helmy’s childhood “was not what he liked”

2. And about childhood He explained, “My childhood is summed up in a sentence: It was not what I loved, but during this period I was happy with it. When I was 6 years old, I was in love with the aunt of one of my friends, and I kept thinking whether I would be a traitor and how I would be honest with him.”

3 The most difficult moment in “Helmy’s” childhood was when his father slapped him in the face with a pen, because he caused the “pigeons” that his uncle was raising in the balcony to fly, noting, “The strange irony is that the pigeons returned, and at that time I was surprised that my father hit me. My uncle had a small brain. And I learned that there are things that should not be forgotten.”

4. A funny situation that happened in childhood, when he was joking with his brother, he threw a piece of fossilized powder at him that entered his mouth, causing him to lose his speech for a while.

5. When Anas Bukhash asked him to summarize himself in one word, “Helmy” described himself as “energy.”

Helmy lived a difficult life in his early days

6. As for the beginning of his youth, Ahmed Helmy pointed out, “I did not live with my father during the ‘companionship’ stage, because he died when I was in the early years of university, and my family was in Banha and I was in Cairo, and in the beginning we were in Saudi Arabia, and his illness was one of the difficult moments, and we lost our money in Money hiring companies.

7. My studies were in Cairo and I was working, and I sat in an apartment with strangers, and its area was a quarter of a room, as if it were two steps, and the bathroom was a quarter of a meter, and I hated myself. The apartment was as if it were a prison, and because it was a laughing tragedy.

Helmy's wishes and the reason for his disappearance from the scene

8. He said with Anas Bukhash Regarding his disappearance from the artistic scene, it is not his wish, but rather it has to do with what he wants to present to the public, and what the public expects from him.

9. I hope that after my death, my funeral will be attended mostly by those with humanitarian positions, not just fans, and I saw that at my father’s funeral, where we saw people we did not know, but my father was helping them.

10. Ahmed Helmy said that he did not dream of fame or dream of having money one day, and he worked in various professions such as theater decorations and clothing printing presses.