Speaking to YouTuber Presenter Ali, Jimwat said he was absent in his son's life for a while.
Jimwat said he started taking alcohol to boost his confidence when facing girls but ended up an alcoholic.
"I don't like to regret, I'm more like I live and learn," he said.
"There are a lot of mistakes but I learned from them. In a sense, they made me better. Apart from music, I don't discuss my issues."
Jimwat said that at the time, he supported his kid financially but not physically.
"Like I hadn't seen my kid in months and it's not a big thing. I would send money. I think I was in a shell by myself," he said.
Jimwat explained the absence had to do with fear of his child seeing him drunk.
"Like maybe if someone talked to me, utaambiwa kitu na baby mama, but utatafuta reason ya ku make hio bad good na the fact that I provide," he said.
"Even when you are told to see the child, I'm like, give them the phone. I mean, the kid is like two years nini. At least if I was there, ingekuwa poa."
Jimwat has now been sober for seven years and is upbeat about everything.
"So in my mind, I told myself to avoid my child, kukaa mbali nisichome. Bora I do the right thing ni hustle namshugulikia," he said.
"So I think ku lose out on hio time and the fact that vile probably life yangu vile nilipanga, that time would have gone differently.
"But I don't regret it coz the fact that I'm sober seven-plus years, and it got to a point someone asked me why I don't have any more desire to drink.
"It's not easy for me to relapse but it's not impossible, but it's not easy."
