Afrobeats star Yemi Alade has revealed that she once battled depression after discovering she had been misreporting her age for three years.
In an interview with Chude Jideonwo, the singer recounted how she kept telling people she was 22, only to realise at 25 that she had been mistaken — a discovery that left her depressed for several days as she tried to process it mentally.
According to Alade, the experience took a toll on her psychologically as she struggled to come to terms with the reality.
“There was a time someone asked me my age, and I kept saying for three years I was 22. Then I realised I was 25 years old. I took out my phone and I did the mathematics. I was depressed for a few days. My mind wasn’t taken into process.
“It was mental, for three years I didn’t know my right age,” she said.