Mavis, whom was born in Zimbabwe, moved to the UK with her little girl when she was 9-years-old.
But, after visiting a hospital with Payeda, the doting mum was left devastated when she learned that her daughter had HIV.
Speaking with Jeremy Kyle on his ITV show, she said: “I was devastated. I couldn’t take it, it was like a brick hitting me.
“When the doctors told me I wanted to take her and drive us of a cliff.
"I was so scared because I thought HIV meant the end of my daughter."
However Mavis’s pain did not end there.
Following her daughter’s diagnosis, doctors also tested her for the disease - and the results came back positive.
She had unknowingly passed on the disease to her daughter.
“I am going to live with that guilt for the rest of my life,” she said.
However brave Payeda - whom is now a beautiful and confident 18-year-old - told her mother that she has accepted who she is… and that, more importantly, she has never blamed her mother for her diagnosis.
"There’s no need to feel guilty because I’ve accepted who I am and it’s made me grow up.
“I don’t know what kind of girl I’d be right now if it wasn’t for this," she revealed.
The teenager added emotionally: “I don’t care what people are going to say - I’m happy because it’s helped me and I can help other people.
"I’m still living a normal life and taking my tablets every day… it’s not a death sentence."
Jeremy, clearly moved by what he had heard, then turned to Mavis and told her firmly: “You should drop the guilt.
“Your daughter is a shining light.”
The Jeremy Kyle Show airs weekdays at 9.25am on ITV.