Nigerian singer, Tiwatope Savage popularly known as Tiwa Savage, has opened up about the emotional toll of her leaked s*x tape.
Gatekeepers News reports that in 2021, a private recording of Savage and her partner surfaced online, sparking a wave of reactions across the entertainment industry. While some rallied behind her, others harshly criticized the singer.
Speaking on the incident in a recent interview, the singer said that the experience left her deeply wounded and betrayed.
She revealed that the leak was orchestrated by her then-boyfriend, who initially claimed it was an accident. She later discovered it was intentional and tied to a bet.
Tiwa Savage said, “I feel like, if I make fun of it, and I pretend like it is not really getting to me, that’s how I will deal with it.”
“And I would put it in my music, but the way I would put it in my music be like when I talked about the s*x tape in ‘Loaded’, and I said, who has never had s*x before. But in hindsight, did I really deal with it? I do not think so.”
“And that is what I am doing now. I was hurt, and it is okay for me to say, I was hurt, I was a victim, it happened to me, as opposed to just trying to let me make a hit out of it. Now I am living in the truth, in my truth, and admitting to myself that, yo, that shit hurt me.”
“I was hurt, and it is okay for me to say I was hurt. I was a victim, it happened to me. I used to joke about it in my music, but the truth is, it broke me.”
The singer described the episode as traumatic, especially because critics went as far as questioning her fitness as a mother.
She recalled, “People were like ‘how can you, at your age, have a s*x tape with someone?’ I did not even know. They thought it was just dirty. And I’m like, I know what some of you guys do is even worse than this, but I was a scapegoat. And that was painful for me, man. It was really painful because they brought my son into it and said I was unfit.”
Savage also explained how her partner deceived her. She said, “He said he was trying to save it and then he pressed sent by accident on Snapchat. He showed me later, but he did not even tell me. And then he pressed sent by accident. “
“And I later on found out that it was a bet. It was that he really bet with his friends or whatever. He was my boyfriend. I thought we were in a relationship and then I am hearing later that it was a bet.”
