21 Things Tiwa Savage Said About TeeBillz Accusations
But in an exclusive interview with Azuka Ogujiuba, ThisDay Editor,
which was obtained exclusively by Pulse TV, Tiwa Savage addressed the
allegations, and made emotional revelations about her husband.
Tiwa Savage has addressed the shocking accusations levelled against her by (ex) husband Tunji ‘Teebillz’ Balogun.
Yesterday, Teebillz had taken to social media to level allegations of
infidelity, neglect and passive torture from Tiwa Savage in their
marriage. He was later reported to have attempted suicide by jumping off
the Lekki-Ikoyi bridge in Lagos.
The allegations brought on a lot of heat and discussions on social media, with many polarizing opinions being offered.
But in an exclusive interview with Azuka Ogujiuba, ThisDay Editor,
which was obtained exclusively by Pulse TV, Tiwa Savage addressed the
allegations, and made emotional revelations about her husband.
Read the edited quotes of her interview below.
When I woke up, I thought they found him dead. My first thought was
that we need to find him, he is suicidal, and we need to make sure he is
alive. I didn’t even know what he had said. Someone took my phone from
me, they don’t want me to see what was said online. I was just sacred
for his life.
At around 10 and 11, Banky W’s Mum and his family
were praying, and we got the call that he was found in Lekki, and that
he has been taken to Banky’s House.
For the past two months, TJ
and I have not been together, it was something we were working through,
but I knew this marriage would not work.
I haven’t spoke to TJ in
about a week, and we were supposed to get some passports for my son. He
was reading the messages and he wasn’t responding. I begged him to be
friends, and let’s be good parents to Jamil. He didn’t respond.
I
covered up for a lot of hurt in our relationship. Just before I went to
Jamaica, I found out that I was pregnant. We were just trying to find
out how we were going to manage another baby so soon. I got to London,
on a 10-hour flight to shoot a video with Busy Signal (Reggae Artiste).
While doing my makeup, I found out I was bleeding and I passed out. I
was rushed to the hospital, and we were trying to call TJ to tell him
what happened. While we were sleeping at two AM a number called him
saved as Edible Catering….I checked his phone, and the number was asking
him if she can come to his hotel. She responded that He (TJ) knocked
her out last night, that he was a great night. I confronted him, and he
said he took another woman to the hotel and said they were just
chilling. This happened the period I was in Jamaica, and I was in the
hospital. I sent TJ pictures, and he was busy with another woman. I was
in ahospital and you couldn’t be bothered find out what happened to me. I
packed my stuff, took my son and went to my friends house, her name is
Tiwa also. I stayed the night, and she asked me for the next step, I
told her I was done.
I covered up for so long because I wanted
people to believe that TJ is the one that takes care of me, TJ is the
head of the house…I wanted him to be the head of the house. I covered up
so much.
TJ has not spent one Naira, I paid for hospital bills,
his flight, his accommodation, we also went shopping for TJ so that he
will have new things. His excuse was that Í don’t have money’. I had to
pay for everything so that he can go out and hustle, and get the
contracts. He didn’t have money for diapers, but he had money to have a
bi-weekly haircut, had money to pay for his laundry, had money to take a
woman to the hotel.
His cooking allegations is a lie. I am not
going to say because of my career that I am not going to cook. I work
long hours to put money in the house, I work to make sure that we have a
roof over our house. I come back home really late, and when I make
something for myself, I make some for TJ. I had to hire a cook to cook
for me, him and the other people that live in the house, I don’t think
that is wrong…Even if it is true, the things he puts me through will not
even encourage me to ask him if he is hungry. He goes out and you come
home at 7 in the morning, sometime 2pm. He comes back drunk, he comes
back angry, and we don’t know what sort of mood he is in. Sometimes TJ
will go out and he will not call, and he will not tell him. I am just
sacred for his safety, I will be calling him frantically, to find out
that he didn’t go and drink. I am even praying that he is with another
woman, so that at least I know that he is alive. That’s not the person
that I will ask if he has eaten.
When I sacked him as my manager –
I will never discredit or take away that TJ worked hard, hustled and
believed in me. But what I will say is that at one point….he is booking
events and he will book shows. The first time I found out that there was
foul play was when he booked me for a wedding in London. I have to be
paid before I perform. I called one of the organisers, and said I have
not been paid. He said that the show has been paid four months ago, he
showed me the account were they paid him. TJ declared that the show was
for 3M but they really paid 4.5M, out of the 3M he was still receiving
the management fee 40%. He took money already, and collected his
percentage, and he didn’t feel anything. He was stealing from his wife. I
had to perform at the wedding for free. I do get to perform for free
when he takes my money.
My mum is based in the UK, and when I had
Jamil she moved back to Nigeria with us. My mother is not like that
(witchcraft), she is a sweet lady, and she’s very British, she doesn’t
judge, she is not hung up like that. A lot of times, my mom would say
‘Tiwa you are the wife, be patient, don’t curse don’t shout, build the
home.’ She has been nothing but a great support for me. I would love for
him to tell me if there is something my mother has done.
I have
never cheated on my husband. Not with Don Jazzy, Dr Sid, 2face Idibia or
anybody. I have never cheated on my husband, and Tunji knows this. He
knows that in his heart. (She breaks down in tears) Sometimes in the
studio, one of the things that Don Jazzy and some of my other label
mates say is that I am really good with interviews, with being
diplomatic and knowing how to carry myself with difficult situations.
This hurts. I have seen comments of what people are saying about me. It
is not true.
I know that for every human being when your father’s
ways are not straight, it will bother you. Since I sacked him from my
management, he has been struggling financially. He was stealing from me,
so I had to save my marriage and separate business from family. TJ
wants to keep up with the Joneses, he wants to live a life that is not
true. He went to buy a car, a Mercedes that he knew that he didn’t have
the money for it. The person kept up calling that he wants the balance. I
ended up paying the balance of over 3M. When it was time to pay, I put
the money in his account, so they don’t know I was the person paying for
it. He also bought a Rolex, and didn’t pay the balance. They threaten
to go to the press, and to protect my name, I will have to pay for it.
He goes to clubs and leaves the tabs for me, and I have to pay for him.
He is putting us in debt.
What set off all off this was that he
went to borrow 45 million Naira from someone and he lost it. I just
found out that EFCC was investigating a case against him, and my brother
called me from London and confirmed it that TJ is in deep trouble, and
that some people might hurt him, that I should be careful. In my frantic
mode to try and suppress this situation I went to one of my big bros
who can help. A week ago I told TJ that we were running out of Jamil’s
food, but he didn’t do nothing. He complains, but cuts his hair twice a
week. I have been searching for N45M so that they don’t kill him, so
that they EFCC does not carry him. What kind of man does that, and says I
am the one taking away his manhood.
I walked in on TJ taking
cocaine in my house in 1004 (Victoria Island, Lagos). I didn’t even know
he takes cocaine. I walked into the kitchen, and I saw him taking
cocaine, so I screamed, and asked if that is cocaine. HE started
screaming that ‘What am I doing down here, where is the cocaine?’ How
can someone without money take cocaine? I called his parents and
complained that I can deal with weed, but cocaine, no. So I am dealing
with his alcohol problem, you come home late, infidelity, coaciane, bad
debt, jealousy over my success.
Before marriage, Idin’t know of
his third child in Nigeria. A lot of people warned me about him, but I
am going to say I made a mistake. At the beginning everyone says you
can’t leave the marriage because our culture frowns on it. I made a
mistake, do I have to wait ten years, 15 years? If I am not happy. And I
was scared that if I ever find somebody else to marry me? That’s the
msiconceptions of our society. I don’t care if I ever get married again.
I care about being happy for Jamil, I care about not walking on
eggshells. I do want a man that works, that will help me with my
financial burden. He doesn’t have to be a millionaire or billionaire,
but at least someone that helps, and won’t put me in more debt.
Everyday all I hear from TJ is that ‘I created you, I took you from nothing, look at you now.
The marriage is finally over, it’s been over for a while, and I have
covered up for a while. What happened was God-sent, and he made it
easier for me to walk away with what he did on social media. He got so
many people angrier, he pulled so many innocent people into this. Even
his family. He made it easy for me to finally up and walk away.
I
will never stop hum from seeing Jamil, never. Even today, Jamil is
still saying ‘dadada’, and I was saying it with him as well, that’s his
first word. I want to bring him up to be a good man.
Even till
now I don’t wish anything bad on him. As we are doing this interview, I
am worried that if he sees it, it might trigger him to do something bad.
I don’t want my son to grow up and know, God forbid, that his father
commited suicide. Tonight, I am still gonna pray for him.
He was
getting help at one point when the whole cocaine thing came out. This
has been happening for a long time. We get him helpo and he goes to see a
doctor or a pastor, or a counsellor and he uses his own hands to ruin
things again. If I didn’t care about him, I wouldn’t be covering up for a
lot of things. I wouldn’t be searching for help for him. Even now I am
still searching for a way to help him out of his debt, so that if he is
out of this,
If there is anything that maybe I overlooked, or
didn’t love him enough, or made him less of a man, then I am sorry. I am
absolutely sorry…Tunji I am sorry. But you know I tried everything, you
know I love you so much, and I am sorry, I never wanted to divorce, and
I never wanted it to get to this. I want you to get better…and I would
always pray for you.