Nigerian musician Inetimi Alfred Timaya Odon, known widely as Timaya, has revealed that he lost wealth and almost lost his life to drugs.
According to him, he was introduced to drugs by a group of guys who were at his house.
Speaking during a recent media interview with Nigeria, the ‘Dem Mama’ crooner narrated that he lost contracts and that many business partners did not want to transact business with him due to his drug addiction.
“I am not a saint. I have done drugs. Breaking off from drugs was hell; it was a tough fight. I never had it all my life; I got introduced to drugs during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Everybody was home, and there were those young guys in my house who were always so happy.”
“And I was like, ‘Bro, how are you guys happier than me? I am the boss. I have money. What are you guys on?’ And they told me that they have ‘molly’. When I took it, I did not understand myself. I was so happy that I dashed all the money in my pocket.”
“So I wanted to just keep feeling like that. That was how I lost a lot of weight. I was not eating; I was just happy,” he narrated.
Timaya stated that drugs were an illusion and kept using his money to buy unreal happiness until he lost everything to drugs.
“Drugs will make you not know yourself; it’s an illusion. How do you just want to stay happy? You are supposed to, first of all, be happy naturally. But when you now need substance to make you happy, it replaces natural happiness. So you have to be buying happiness.
“When I said I was taking Molly, I was taking like three pills every day, and it felt like medication. I lost a lot of money; I got kicked out of my contracts, and people I was doing business with never wanted to deal with me. I had to work on myself,” he added.
In moving forward, Timaya said he worked on himself to restore his life, and now he has released a track called “Cold Outside” to outline his struggles as an addict and educate the public to desist from such an act.
“I sang ‘Cold Outside’ to depict my experience. If you pay attention to the video of the song, I have to pass along a message about what I went through. I almost died from that experience,” he added.
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/MaxFM/max.com.gh/Joyceline Natally Cudjoe
