Popular singer, Tiwa Savage has revealed that she could barely feed after graduating while in the overseas.
Speaking at her album, Celia‘s listening party, Savage said she was financially stranded after graduating from high school.
Because of her financial condition, the mother of one explained that she had to live in a shelter specially made for women with drug addiction issues in New York.
According to her, international students were not allowed to work so she had to live without a job and sort out her feeding.
Her words: “I think I was 22 and we were in New York. I was living in Bed-Stuy, kind of like a shelter. A lot of people didn’t know this. I was in a shelter for women that had drug abuse problems.”
“I just graduated from school. You know as an international student you can’t work. So, I couldn’t work. I was doing the side thing in Bed-Stuy which is like the hood in Brooklyn,” She added.
She further described how former beauty queen, Elizabeth Elohor met her and helped her out while she was in the New York.
“She was ordering food and I ordered appetizers because I was so broke and I was so hungry. And I remember she was looking at me and asked, ‘what are you ordering?.’ And I was just lying that I’m not hungry.
“And then she just started asking me, ‘are you sure?.’ And then I just started crying. And then she’s just like, ‘what is the matter?.’ I said, ‘Elohor, I don’t have money.’”
“She just started ordering stuff and she even ordered stuff for me to take home. I remember going home to my little box or whatever, and I was just crying. This girl literally made my day.
“So, the first time they put my picture in Times Square, she was the first person I called,” she revealed almost in tears.
Written by Praise Shogbade
