Nigerian afropop Queen, Tiwa Savage has spoken up on how her divorce with her ex-husband Tunji popularly known as ‘TeeBillz’ affected her life and later inspired her bad girl lifestyle.
According to her, during a podcast interview with The Receipts Podcast, her ex-husband initiated their separation in 2018, few months after she gave birth to their baby and was suffering from postpartum depression.
The multiple award-winning singer said people blamed her for it, because her ex-husband spoke first about the divorce, and when she told her own side of the story, she was attacked by individuals and blogs because she was a woman, and was not supposed to speak.
“People said, ‘How dare you go and talk?’ I was told I’d never win because I was a woman. It was heartbreaking,” she said.
Even while she had her baby who was just few months old, only few people came to check up on her, whereas, her ex-husband had a lot of people coming to him.
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Tiwa Savage reminisced about her past, saying she used to live by the accepted codes of conduct of the society, she went to a university and graduated, was not a baby mama, got married the right way, everyone loved her for that, then what happened happened, she started getting hate from blogs and from certain people.
“When I came out, I was Nigeria’s sweetheart when I started and I could do no wrong in Nigerian’s eyes. I did everything by the book. I went to university and I wasn’t a baby mama. I got married then I had a baby so I did everything in the right order and everybody loved me and then everything happened.
“Then I started getting hate from blogs and I started getting hate from certain people. The way our situation happened, he announced it online. I didn’t break up with him but I was the one being attacked.
“At the time, my baby was just a few months old and I was dealing with postpartum and my body wasn’t the same and I was depressed. Everyone then went to him and only a few people came to see me.
“After I interviewed to tell my side of the story, it got worse. People were like ‘How dare you go and talk’ ‘You’re a woman and you’re supposed to build the house, it’s your fault’.
“I remember famous people calling me to ask how I could tell my side of the story cuz I’d never win. Ever since then, I was like I won’t ever talk about the situation because it was very heartbreaking how the public took it and blamed me,” Tiwa said.
After this experience, she decided to change and go wild, becoming the ‘African Bad Girl”, wearing short skirts and bikinis in public, and had a tattoo.
She said, the experience was an eye-opener for her, after doing what was right, yet people could still hate and attack her, then there was no point in trying to impress anyone anymore.
“It was an eye-opener for me and it made me depressed for so long. It got me angry then I became the ‘African Bad Girl’.
“I thought to myself that after doing everything right I was still attacked. Then I started getting tattoos and wearing short skirts and bikini. I was just wild,” she said.
