Popular singer, Damini Ogulu, otherwise known as Burna Boy, is currently a trending topic on social media, after being called out and accused of cheating.
The Afro-fusion star was called out and accused of cheating on his girlfriend Stefflon Don by a 23-year-old lady identified as Jo Peal.
In a video making round on the internet, Peal explained how she was Burna Boy’s side piece for two years.
According to Peal, the Odogwu crooner promised to marry her and give birth to twins but she has now been relegated to the background, which she said is affecting her mental health.
“Two years is such a long time for a person to be hidden,” she said in the video on Instagram. “It has affected me in so many ways, and I can’t hold it anymore to protect people that wouldn’t protect me.”
Revealing how she met and fell in love with Burna Boy, the 23-year-old said it was the singer who sent her a message on Instagram, and it took her about two weeks to reply because she was reluctant at first before her friends persuaded her.
According to her, she reluctantly replied and they started talking.
From chatting, Peal said Burna Boy invited her for his pop-up show in the United Kingdom (UK), which was the first time they met.
“I feel like what he made me feel like when I met him made me feel like love at first sight. He just gravitated towards me, he was very sweet,” she said.
She explained how she was hesitant at first because she didn’t want to date someone in the music industry, Pearl said she soon fell in love with Burna.
“His words actually worth his action. Not only will he tell me as he loves me, and other personal things, he actually showed me. This is somebody that wanted me around; this is somebody who I basically moved in with,” she said.
Burna Boy and Peal’s relationship sailed well until the former travelled to Nigeria in November, ahead of the busy Christmas schedule.
While in Nigeria, Pearl said Burna Boy called her every day until mid-December when she couldn’t get in contact with the singer for two weeks.
He later reached her to say that he had been hospitalised and reassured her of his love.
“He would tell me ‘I don’t know what this is that we got going on, but I like it, you are going to be my wife, I’m going to marry you. We are going to have twins; you are my sweet Salon Jollof’,” Pearl said.
Things got weird from that December, according to her, such that she wanted to travel to Nigeria to be with Burna Boy but was refused from doing so.
Peal further revealed that her relationship with Burna Boy became shaky after an argument that December and at the end of the next month, she heard of Burna Boy’s relationship with Stefflon Don.
Describing how she felt immediately she learnt of the singer’s relationship with Stefflon Don, Peal said: “I literally collapsed and cried for days, probably even weeks.
“I feel like the thing that hurt me the most is that from the first day I met him, he always emphasized how much he just loved black women, African women. He made me feel so good to the point; I cut my hair just recently.
“I don’t even wear makeup to go see him, he loves my short hair, he was telling me how beautiful I am. He just truly helped boost my self-confidence in ways I didn’t think was possible and I just loved that about him.”
Pearl added that she thought Burna’s relationship with the British rapper was a publicity stunt. Her words: “At that point, I thought this relationship was fake anyway. I thought, there’s no way this boy is going to date someone like that only because of the things he has told me about himself. Knowing how he is so in tune with his African heritage and black women,” Pearl said.
Pearl said they never addressed the other relationship and they resumed as usual. “For the past two years we have never stopped seeing each other.
“It’s just been like the elephant in the room that we choose not to discuss and we just go about things like it doesn’t exist.
“I just was in love, and I have been in love for two years, and I have been seeing him for two years; I’ve just always been in the background.
“In the past two years, he has never mentioned the person I see him with on social media to my face. That person never gets acknowledged, it’s like she doesn’t exist in our world,” she added.
“D, I’m just tired of protecting you,” she said, addressing Burna Boy. “I’ve got feelings too, seeing you in secret for two years has been detrimental to my mental state. “
“It’s my choice, but you guys will never understand what it is to be in my shoes.
“I didn’t do this video to hurt you. I know it will hurt you because as far as you are concerned, me and you are on good terms but I can’t do this anymore.
“I’m not doing this for clout, I’ve been very private for two years, I’m not doing this for money because financially I have been so stable, working and having someone provide for me, so I’m simply doing this because I’m about to burst and mentally I feel like I am in a bad place,” Peal clarified.
