Afrobeat superstar Tiwa Savage has candidly shared the emotional turmoil she endured during and after her 2018 divorce from ex-husband Tunji ‘TeeBillz’ Balogun.
The 44-year-old states that she faced, including postpartum depression, public backlash, and criticism from prominent figures.
Tiwa disclosed that the split, initiated by her ex-husband, was made public in a shocking online announcement, leaving her to bear the brunt of societal judgment.
I did everything right
Despite doing “everything right”—completing university, getting married, and having a child within wedlock—Tiwa said she went from being “Nigeria’s sweetheart” to facing hate from blogs and the public.
“When I came out, I was Nigeria’s sweetheart when I started. 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.
“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.
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“By the time, my baby was just a few months old. 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 is very heartbreaking how the public took it and blamed me,” the Afrobeat queen narrates.
“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 adds.
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