Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli's mother talks on how she gave him up for adoption

THE MUM of Man City ace Mario Balotelli last night told of her joy at being reunited after giving him up as a child.

Relieved Rose Barwuah, 46, added: “I am happy to see him and he is happy to see me.”

The Sun told on Sunday how Rose moved from Italy to the tough estate featured in TV’s Shameless to be near the striker, 21, in the hope of rekindling their relationship. Her £120,000-a-week son — who she handed to a rich foster family when he was two — now often shows up in his white Bentley GT at her £550-a-month rented terrace.

Rose said:

“Mario has been over to see me a few times, but he doesn’t want people to know I’m here. We don’t see each other all the time as he has his life and I have mine.

“He’s a private person and it’s still early days.” She added: “I haven’t even been to watch him play football here yet, but I’m very proud of him. I’m thrilled, overjoyed to be here.”

Rose and daughter Angel, 13, moved to Manchester’s Wythenshawe area just before Christmas. Angel now goes to a local school. Nineteen years ago in Italy, she and hubby Thomas were advised to hand Mario to foster parents — the Balotellis. The couple were then living in a tiny flat in Brescia — and claimed the Balotellis turned Mario against them.