David Oyelowo‘s late mother may no longer be with us, but the actor is continuing her legacy with heartwarming and hilarious memories of her.

Kelly Clarkson brought up the Government Cheese star’s mom’s “interesting reviews” of his work on Friday’s The Kelly Clarkson Show, and asked Oyelowo what she would think of his new Apple TV+ dramedy.

“Oh gosh, my mum, she would love this right up until the moment my character kisses Simone Missick in the show,” he explained. “My mum could never get her head around the fact that it is make-believe. So if I kissed another woman, she was like, ‘You are having an affair! In front of everybody!’”

As she laughed, Clarkson quipped, “Shame on your family.”

Oyelowo teased that his wife, fellow actress Jessica Oyelowo, would be “sat next to [him] at the screening” when this took place.

Clarkson added, “This is called acting.”

And the same took place when the actor’s character passed away in a project.

“If I died in something, no matter how good it was, she would come up to me. She would smack me,” he recalled, before proceeding to imitate her again. “‘Why did you let me watch that? I have to see my son die again!’”