{"id":243490,"date":"2025-10-27T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243490\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:05:07","slug":"how-lying-about-my-age-for-3-years-led-to-depression-singer-yemi-alade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243490\/","title":{"rendered":"How lying about my age for 3 years led to depression \u2013 Singer Yemi Alade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Afrobeat star Yemi Alade has revealed that lying about her age for years once drove her into a period of depression.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a recent interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, the award-winning singer admitted that she spent three years telling people she was 22, only to later realise she was actually 25.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yemi, the discovery left her mentally shaken, as she struggled to come to terms with the truth about her real age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a time someone asked me how old I was, and for about three years I kept saying 22, Then one day I calculated it and realised I was already 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was depressed for a few days because my mind couldn\u2019t process it. It was mental for three years. I didn\u2019t know my age.\u201d She said.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cKnack Am\u201d hitmaker added that the experience taught her how easily self-deception can impact one\u2019s mental health, describing those years as a tough but eye-opening period in her life.<\/p>\n<p>DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<p>DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigerian Afrobeat star Yemi Alade has revealed that lying about her age for years once drove her into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-243490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}