Seyi Shay Reveals Ex-Personal Assistant’s Affair With Tiwa Savage’s Estranged Husband Sparked Rift

By Micheal Chukwuebuka

NIGERIAN singer Seyi Shay has opened up about the root cause of her long-standing feud with fellow Afrobeats star Tiwa Savage, revealing that a shocking confession from a former personal assistant led to the breakdown of their friendship.

Speaking on the OffAir Show, Seyi Shay explained that she had been unaware of the reason behind their sudden fallout until she reconnected years later with the ex-staff member, who disclosed that she had an affair with Tiwa Savage’s then-husband, Tunji “TeeBillz” Balogun.

“I honestly didn’t know why Tiwa and I stopped talking to each other,” Seyi recounted. “A young lady I hired as a PA back when Didi was still managing me… after the whole salon experience, I moved to London to have my daughter. I saw this girl at a club, someone I hadn’t seen in about seven years. She reached out on Instagram, we met for lunch, and she said, ‘I saw what happened and I’m really sorry. It is very detrimental to your career and I feel like I’m the cause of it.’”

According to the singer, the woman went on to confess that she had been romantically involved with TeeBillz while he was still married to Tiwa Savage.

“To cut the long story short, it turns out the girl was having a relationship with my girl’s husband and I didn’t even know,” Seyi revealed. “She told me all of that. It must have been true; I don’t think she would say all of that as a joke.”

Seyi said she was heartbroken by the revelation, especially because of her once-close friendship with Tiwa.

“When she told me this I was disgusted because we were rolling together and doing things together, meanwhile Tiwa probably thought I knew about it. You can just imagine the anger. It’s so painful. If that was me, I would have done worse,” she admitted.

The confession sheds new light on one of Afrobeats’ most publicised celebrity feuds, which reached its peak during a heated confrontation between the two singers at a Lagos salon in 2021 — an incident that was widely circulated online.

Neither Tiwa Savage nor TeeBillz has publicly responded to Seyi Shay’s recent claims.