Nigerian singer Orezi has shared an unexpected and generous gesture he once received from a woman who simply admired him.
In a recent interview on The Echoroom, the “Rihanna” hitmaker revealed that a Hausa woman he met in Abuja gave him a whopping ₦30 million, even though they had no romantic relationship.
Orezi expressed his surprise at the gesture, noting that it’s usually men who are expected to give extravagant gifts.
When asked about the largest sum of money he had ever received from a woman, Orezi responded: “The highest amount of money I’ve received from a woman? I don’t really want to say, but okay, it was 30 million Naira, back in Abuja. I wasn’t married to her or anything—she just liked me.”
He continued, “If you like a woman, wouldn’t you give her money? It was 2016. We weren’t dating, but we had something going on. I didn’t need the money, I had money, but she just gave it to me. We had fun at a club, and the pretty Hausa woman gave me money. I was shocked, I won’t lie. She asked when I was going to Lagos, and the next day, she asked for my account number and sent the money.”
Orezi added that such experiences are not uncommon for celebrities. “A lot of artistes experience things like that. It’s a normal part of being a celebrity. Just like pretty women enjoy ‘pretty privileges,’ men enjoy it too. In fact, I had a friend in university whose school fees and provisions were paid for by a woman. This is something that often goes unspoken; women do a lot for men, but it’s not talked about.”
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