Afrobeats singer Yemi Alade has opened up about her struggle with depression, triggered by a three-year period of misidentifying her age.
In her interview with Chude Jideonwo, she recounted how she repeatedly told people she was 22, only to realise at 25 that she had been mistaken, leading to a few days of depression as her mind grappled with the reality.
According to Alade, the revelation was a mental challenge and struggled to come to terms with it.
She said: “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”.