Basketmouth
believes Tiwa Savage and Tee Billz did immense damage to their marriage
as a result of their social media and online shocking revelations.
Tiwa & Tee Billz
Speaking during a Hip TV chat show, 'The Gist with Ugolee',
late on Saturday night, popular Nigerian stand-up comedian, Bright
Okpocha, a.k.a Basketmouth, believes Mavin Records singer, Tiwa Savage,
and her estranged husband, Tee Billz, did immense damage to their
marriage as a result of their public revelations on social media.
It was widely reported when the couple’s marriage hit the rocks
after Tee Billz took to social media to accuse his wife of being a
serial adulterer and reportedly tried to commit suicide. While Tiwa
responded by holding a no holds barred interview, where she made
startling allegations about her husband.
Basketmouth in the TV show last night, affirmed that the couple as
well as many others tend to divulge too much personal information on the
internet.
“To a large extent, I think there are a lot of people abusing
the use of social media, I am sorry. Most of us artistes realizing that
we have I, 2, 3 or 4 million people following us and you know that when
you say something, a lot of people are going to react.
“It is like drug; you can’t contain yourself and start saying
some crap. You are like a god having a lot of followers, whatever you
tell them to do, they do.
“I am okay with people who go on social media to rant but I am
against those who have turned it into a church to settle family issues.
Normally, if you have a marital problem, you call your wife one on one.
If you cannot contain it, you call in the parents. That’s how I saw it
when I was growing up which is the culture I have embraced.
“That kind of situation shouldn’t be taken to social media and
let people who have never been married, have no idea about what marriage
is all about, say stuff about your marriage.
“There are a lot of people with mental problem who have phone
and data, you then give them the access to talk trash about your
personal life.
“In Teebillz situation, the way he spoke on social media really
appeared as though he was going to commit suicide and said horrible
things to his father.
“Those words were words you say and just die, but now that he
is still alive, how would he face his father? It would have been better
if he had just written a letter to the man instead of putting it online.
Unfortunately again, he went to blast his wife and his wife’s mother.
These are things that shouldn’t be put online.
“Another thing is that Tiwa has a larger following than
Teebillz, after Tiwa blasted him, it was extreme and it crushed him. He
had no comeback; there is no comeback to things like that.”
