Popular Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage has gotten everyone emotional as she recounts on the times she was so poor.
Tiwa Savage in a surprise party organized for the launch of her new Celia album revealed that she was so poor and stranded in New York.
she disclosed that at the age of 22 she graduated from school and foreign graduates cant work abroad which made her so broke and had to live in a shelter in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
the singer as she was surrounded by loved ones broke down in tears and narrates all that she went through.
Tiwa Savage revealed;
“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 further narrated how she met former beauty queen Elizabeth Elohor who odered food for her to eat.
“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.
she added;
“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,”
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