I Can’t Drive Around Alone In Lagos Anymore – Tems

Popular singer, Tems has come out to say that fame has drastically changed her daily routine.

She recently had her say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, she almost got robbed when she attempted to drive herself last year, and ever since then, she has been going around with police escorts when she drives around Lagos.

Tems added that she just cannot be behind the wheel and feel like the normal girl again.

Her words, “I am very famous at home, so I can’t really go anywhere.

And we have area boys, and they know who I am, so I can’t drive anywhere. I used to try to drive before but I almost got mobbed last year because I attempted to drive myself. Now I have to have police cars in front and at the back, and if I want to drive myself, there must be police diving behind me. If in trying to live a normal life again and feel normal, I have to have police escorts in front and at the back if I’m in Nigeria. If I say I want to be behind the wheel and feel like the normal girl, I can’t.

I didn’t take it well at first, the fame. After some time I just wanted some alone time and wanted to go back to my room and be alone. Even with my team, adapting to having to talk and have conversations was strange because I never had to do that before so I didn’t take it well at all. I was very blunt, rude… I wouldn’t say rude, but I’d say things that were obvious, but I wasn’t meant to say them.

When I hear someone say something about me, I would go to them and be like, ‘do we have a problem? are we okay?’ and then I was told that I wasn’t supposed to confront people.

I’m a quiet person, but because someone was spreading rumours about me, I just wanted to know why. Some of these people were like big in the industry, so I couldn’t walk up to them. I had to learn everything from the beginning.”

WOW.