SAN FRANCISCO, November 02, (THEWILL) – Popular Nigerian singer, Tiwa savage, has disclosed that due to her experience with bullying, she attempted suicide twice.
The singer disclosed this during an interview with media personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, saying that she was bullied in high school in London where she moved to at a very long age.
She said: “When I got to school, it was horrible and I had an accent. My first day I clearly cannot forget. I got to school late and my teacher couldn’t pronounce my name. She then asked why I was late to school and I said ‘sorry ma there was go slow. ‘Everyone started laughing. I was teased so badly.
“They use to call me ‘African girl’ ‘Fufu’, ‘We heard your food smells badly’ it was so bad that I literally tried to kill myself two times. I was depressed and bullied. They would flush my hair down during lunch break. At some point, I use to have a police escort me to the bus. I wanted to bleach and started growing my hair. It was really terrible.”
She also opened up about her family, especially her mum describing her as a very typical African parent in London.
She said: “I found it out initially, I didn’t like her because she was tough on me. Not that I didn’t like her but it was weird. I was really close to her, I could tell her everything. I could tell her things you shouldn’t even tell a Nigerian mom.
“I would want to go out for parties all night and she would be like ‘be back by 9 and I’m like the people won’t even be there yet. I’ll be so angry. I want to bleach because I hated my dark skin, she caught me and threw everything and I was like what is your business. I think it was between 14, 15, and 16…I was really insecure.”
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Speaking on her participation in the recent #EndSARS protest, the singer stated that: “”When someone loses a life…I’m just thinking that there is a mother out there who has lost a son because of police brutality. Like I said I know people around me who have experienced terrible brutality from police officers. How can I be in Nigeria and not lend my voice, my platform to something like that? Because people close to me have experienced frightening situations”.
She also stated that the #EndSARS protest was a means to an end as the youths had to start from somewhere.
She concluded: “We have to start from somewhere, start from a hashtag, then it gets to protesting, then it gets to the government’s ears, knocks on the right doors and people who have the power to make a change. It is a means to an end.”
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