Having problems with the method: prepareForReuse

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I have a custom UITableViewCell, and when it's selected, it expands and adds a UILabel to the selected cells UIView that I added in the storyBoard.

When I run the app and select a cell, the label gets added to myView as expected. The problem is, when I scroll down, the label is also shown at another cell.

Apparently the reason its behaving like so, is because I'm reusing the cell and I don't clean them. I'm trying to call the method of prepareForReuse and 'cleaning' the cell, but I'm having trouble doing that. Here is my code:

- (void)prepareForReuse
{
    mainVC *c = [[mainVC alloc] init];
    if (c.info) {
        [c.info removeFromSuperview];
    }
}
- (void)viewDidLoad {
    self.sortedDictionary = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"Californa", @"Alabama", @"Chicago", @"Texas", @"Colorado", @"New York", @"Philly", @"Utah", @"Nevadah", @"Oregon", @"Pensilvainia", @"South Dekoda", @"North Dekoda", @"Iowa", @"Misouri", @"New Mexico", @"Arizona", @"etc", nil];

    self.rowSelection = -1;
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    CategorieCell *customCell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"cellID" forIndexPath:indexPath];
    customCell.title.text = [self.sortedDictionary objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    return customCell;
}

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    [tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];
    CategorieCell *customCell = (CategorieCell *)[tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];

    if (self.info) {
        [self.info removeFromSuperview];
    }

    self.info = [[UILabel alloc] init];
    [self.info setText:@"Hello"];
    [self.info setBackgroundColor:[UIColor brownColor]];

    CGRect labelFrame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 50, 100);
    [self.info setFrame:labelFrame];

    [customCell.infoView addSubview:self.info];

    NSLog(@"%ld", (long)indexPath.row);

    self.rowSelection = [indexPath row];
    [tableView beginUpdates];
    [tableView endUpdates];

}


- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    if ([indexPath row] == self.rowSelection) {
        return 159;
    }
    return 59;
}