{"id":426945,"date":"2017-10-09T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/09\/mel-gibson-witnessed-my-first-performance-stephanie-benson\/"},"modified":"2017-10-09T17:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T17:30:26","slug":"mel-gibson-witnessed-my-first-performance-stephanie-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/09\/mel-gibson-witnessed-my-first-performance-stephanie-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson witnessed my first performance \u2013 Stephanie Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Monday,  9 October 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-10-09<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/83906801.295.jpg\" alt=\"Benson Stephanie\" title=\"Benson Stephanie\" width=\"295\" height=\"203\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Stephanie Benson said Mel Gibson was sitting at the table with Peter Stringfellow<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385179598\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385179598\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1507570226_951_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">UK based Ghanaian singer, Stephanie Benson, has disclosed that famous American actor and filmmaker, Mel Gibson was present when she performed for the first time in a nightclub. She made this disclosure during an interview on the Delay Show.<\/p>\n<p>According to the musician, the \u2018Brave Heart\u2019 movie star was seated at a table in the Strange Fellows nightclub in the US, with the owner of the club, Peter Stringfellow when she approached them and suggested that she is given the chance to play the piano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy break was when I was nineteen when I went to Stringfellows. It was a night club in the centre of London. All the stars, that\u2019s where they went The first time I walked in, Peter Stringfellow was sitting at a table in a corner with about 7 people around him. Mel Gibson and Andy Kane were present\u201d, she claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was quite shy so a friend of mine told me to go and ask him if I could play. So I gathered courage and approached the table, apologized for interrupting and told him that I could do better than the girl playing the piano\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie said that the owner of the club seemed skeptical at first but gave her a shot and that was her breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looked me up and down, and for a moment I thought he was going to tell me to leave. Surprisingly he told me to go and play. 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