Ferdinand Ekechukwu
Ladies, Its Iyanya… Your waist your waist all I want is your waist. Your waist your waist all I want is your waist… Tiwa Savage roll am ooo. Tonto Dikeh roll am ooo. Yvonne Nelson roll am ooo… this lyric in Iyanya’s hit song ‘Ur Waist’ was assumed by many to be mere pop culture thing until lately following revelations of a past affair between the Nigerian Afropop singer and star-actress, Yvonne Nelson.
Iyanya even in the song crooned further Yvonne Nelson, I have your medicine… Yvonne Nelson and Iyanya, were an item some years back and they made some of their colleagues’ green with envy of their relationship. The much talked about romance between Iyanya and Yvonne Nelson hit the rocks in 2015 after the pair began dating in July 2012 and was spotted together at several functions.
What went wrong, leading to how they parted ways has been shared by the pair in half tales on different occasions. But the Ghanaian television personality, Nelson would in her new book, ‘I Am Not Yvonne Nelson’ give salacious details of what actually transpired, saying their relationship came to an end due to the ‘Kukere’s crooner infidelity with Nigerian actress, Tonto Dikeh.
The Nollywood-Ghallywood star interestingly revealed in chapter 10 titled ‘Iyanya and My Love Life’ of the said memoir launched last Sunday, indicating the star artiste was just at lust for her as he was for her colleague. Yvonne Nelson described her relationship with the singer as a dreamy relationship with breakfast in bed and all the niceties and that she had assurance that her love with him was forever when he tattooed her initials ‘YN’ on his wrist.
“If he wasn’t serious about the he wouldn’t do that. In his hit song, ‘Ur Waist’, he mentioned how he lusted over me”, Yvonne wrote, before talking about how she discovered that he was cheating on her with Tonto Dikeh in an excerpt circulating online. “One can therefore imagine my shock when I returned to Ghana after one of my visits to Nigeria and someone called me from his house.
“The caller said anytime I left Iyanya’s place, another actress came over to him and sometimes slept over. The person felt strongly that there was something going on between them and thought I should know. That actress turned out to be Tonto Dikeh of Nigeria, one of the female celebrities Iyanya named in his ‘Ur Waist’ song”
“The person felt strongly that there was something going on between them and thought I should know. The actress turned out to be Tonto Dikeh of Nigeria, one of the female celebrities Iyanya named in his ‘Ur Waist’ song. When I was convinced about the authenticity of the information I received, I was heartbroken. I took to Twitter to rant and vent.
“Tonto Dikeh responded on Twitter, saying people changed and so did feelings, so I should move on… I knew I eventually would have left even if Tonto Dikeh didn’t come into the picture.”
Further revelations in Yvonne’s trending memoir shed light on additional incidents involving Iyanya and some of his female crew members, proving that what occurred between him and Tonto Dikeh was not an isolated incident.
“I later heard more stories about what Iyanya did with some of his female crew members. It convinced me that what happened between him and Tonto Dike wasn’t an isolated incident. It was a pattern, his way of life. I knew I eventually would have left even if Tonto Dikeh hadn’t come into the picture. I did not see the need to keep fighting her for a man I had lost, especially when I knew her fate was not going to be different from mine.”
