‘Ready To Die’ NADIA NAKAI Opens Up About Her Personal Healing Journey In Candid Interview, Says ‘Sometimes I Just Tweet Things I Am Not Supposed To’

Nadia Nakai

According To Sunday Tribune, Appearing in her first podcast since the death of her rapper boyfriend, Kiernan “AKA” Forbes, Nadia Nakai owned her space and seemed as jovial as ever. Chatting to Zingah on his popular podcast,

“Choppin It Up With Bhuda T”

The

“Naaa Meaan”

Hitmaker spoke of how she rose to heights in her career.

About her private family affairs, the rapper, who was born Nadia Dlamini, shared that she was born and bred in South Africa and could not take any credit from Zimbabwean artists. She disclosed how she recently met her father after three decades at a Spur restaurant in Boksburg after he had reached out to her after media reports following AKA’s death. Since her parents’ divorce, Nakai’s dad lived between Canada and South Africa, while she lived with her mom during her childhood in South Africa and Kenya.

“It was actually a good meeting, it was wholesome, it was nice. I didn’t have any anger because I feel like I lived a good life with my mom. I think I just wanted to meet him because there was a lot going on in my life, things were hectic, and I felt like I needed to find myself’.

“I also went to Zim to see my gogo. It was part of my healing process”.

Speaking about her recent 2am tweets where she said she was

“ready to die”

She said that she wasn’t suicidal but just tweeted when she was

“drunk and emotional”

“People read my tweets like I am suicidal, now they need to save her, and it’s not that. I just get to a point where, those demon times, at 2 or 3am, sometimes I just tweet things that I am not supposed to.”

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