When I sat, for an hour and a half on Monday morning, with this beautiful songstress, I thought of how Africa’s preconceived ideas of a drama queen and forever horizontal do-not-wanna-do-nothing celebrity; however this sweet Ghana gem is a loving, sweet, kind, humble, down-to-earth, honest, soft-spoken, charming and grateful woman.
She opened up about her life back home, her relationship, the history making big brother eviction show snub and saying goodbye to her man when he got upgraded to Weirdville (Upville) on Sunday. I just love the way she says Keitta’ name…
Segs: Why did you decide to go into the house with your man?
Eazzy Baby: (
laughs) Well, basically, obviously I wanted to try out new opportunities for my music career cause I wanted to get the African recognition to promote my music further. He was also looking for opportunities to be the big-time model that he has also desired to be. He spoke me into this, actually. I thought that No, I don’t think I need this. And then he was like “come on, we can do this together.” For me it felt more of a sacrifice. But I felt ok, let me just go test it. Then again for him, he thought it was a way to test our relationship.
Along the line, he brought me into that idea… So overall, it was for opportunity, test our relationship and most of the time I feel like I was doing it for him. I wanted to do this for him. I wanted him to go in there and pick all the opportunities he wanted and hoped for. And hopefully this will put him on that platform; maybe we can even level heads together and have a smooth relationship instead of a decline in our relationship.
Segs: Take us through your emotions the first week when you could not look into each other’s eyes, have a moment alone…
Eazzy: Ohh my gaad!
Segs: …and whisper beautiful somethings to each other?
Eazzy: (
giggles) The first week! The first week was crazy, it was dramatic for me. It was unbearable. It was totally new from the kind of life that I am used to. I walked in from a house where like, I live in a 5 bedroom house, I have people who work for me on a daily basis, I wake up at 1p.m. feeling lazy and walking around the place doing nothing .. and then I entered into a house that like straight 6 o’clock in the morning there is this irritating … I can’t even explain that sound…
Segs: It’s at half past seven.
Eazzy: Nnooooooo! Really? It felt like 6 o’clock or even sometimes it felt like it was 5 a.m. and then you have these irritating gunshots and cocks crowing, snake hisses and even hear sheep as an alarm that feels like they are ringing straight in your ears, then there are flashing lights that hit your straight in your face, even if your eyes are shut it goes straight into your brain. I felt like what the hell is this? “Keitta, I wanna go home and I wanna go home now. I want voluntary exit and I wanna go now.”
I was close to going to the Diary room and knocking over and over again but then it came to “if you exit, your partner exits”. He seemed like he was easing himself into the house, trying to blend but for me that first week was really hard. It was having to… do a lot of things for the very first time. It was having to fit myself from celebrity back home to a regular person in the house. When I say regular, the kind of person who’s not gonna be smug in people’s eyes like “hey ssshhh, keep yourself, I am a celebrity back at home.” I tried to be normal like everyone else, I tried to adjust to not have make-up artists when I get up and step out into the public. My hair was a mess (
pulls cap off and pulls the hair) in the house.
Segs: Why did you take off your braids?
Eazzy: Because the front was loose and they kept breaking my hair. Because I use a lot of weave, I really need my front hair not to break and mess my hairline.
Segs: What did you want them to do with your hair? Was it about the hair that you did not come on stage and did Keitta give you flak for it?
Eazzy: I was disappointed. I wanted to turn the place upside down. Keitta did not even try to convince me to come out on stage. Keitta knows me and knows that when I say yes, it’s a yes. Well, anyway, before I got in – I wanted to bring my own hair and I was promised that everything will be taken care of. And anytime I wanted my hair to be done, it will get fixed. When I took off my braids, I asked if I could get my hair fixed, I was then told that my ball would have to drop for eviction for my hair to be done.
So all through the 3 weeks I kept reminding them that my hair, my hair (
referring to the hair she had brought with) and they kept assuring me that it was good. I had to be dealing with going from “Eazzy” to this (
pulls her hair) in the house. For once, for my eviction, I wanted to look like “Eazzy”, I wanted to look like myself. So when I went out there and I was told that “because of technical problems, we can’t have your hair”.
I was traumatised, I was disappointed. I was asked to compromise and cut my hair, I was not prepared to do that. The few days before that had been very hard for me, thinking of the possible separation between me and my boyfriend. It was very emotional, and I had bottled in a lot of emotions. Yes, I was making noise about not walking on stage. I kinda meant it though cause I did not wanna walk on stage looking like this. But then again, my hair was not the sole reason I snubbed the show. But maybe I made my emotions the better part of my decision, you know, for not walking on stage. I did not wanna walk on stage and break down. There were so many things rushing through my head. I did not think I was in the right state of mind to go on stage and stand next to IK and answer questions, I would have made a mess of myself.
Segs: I did a bit of research and discovered that you did a TV show 6 months ago or so and you said you were single and available… and..
Eazzy: (
laughs) I know.
Segs: And then now you show up on big brother with an 18 months relationship…
Eazzy: (
laughs) I know. I know. People are gonna kill me back at home for that. Yes, it was more of a secretive relationship. But people in our circle knew about it – our families, our friends – people who matter to our relationship. What I did not want to do was to go out with a guy I was not too sure of, and then go out and tell the whole of Ghana I have a boyfriend and then 6 months later it doesn’t work out. And then I switch boyfriends and they are like “what kind of girl is that, she keeps switching?”
I said to him that we must give ourselves some time, like a year, and be sure because we had a lot of differences. We had career differences, social status differences – we even had age differences. Well, you know that he is younger than I am. Deep inside me, when we are talking, I was waiting for something that would elevate him before I put him out in the limelight. I knew what was gonna happen in my country, they were gonna bash him and bash him. They would ask him what is he doing with someone who is richer than him, insinuate that I am only taking advantage of him. They would suggest he is using me for fun.
Segs: Is he from a celebrity-type family? He mentioned his brother and his music background..
Eazzy: He does come from a very huge celebrity life but Keitta is the kind of person that likes to acquire things for himself. He is the type of person that even if he has to go through the worst things in life to make something for himself; he wants to spend his own money. He wants to acquire things for himself and not feed, you know, on his brother’s… well, yes there’s money in his family but he wants his own.
Segs: Did your relationship change whilst you were in the house?
Eazzy: The first week was hectic for me when there was dealing with my relationship in public for the first time. You can’t talk to your boyfriend, you can’t have a moment with him, and you can’t do anything. I thought our relationship was just on a pedestal, moving around and shaking. It was totally different from other stuff we used to do.
Segs: Did you guys get a chance to have the date?
Eazzy: (
laughs) yeah, we were planning to have the date and biggie is a really party-pooper. Anytime we were planning something, we would be locked up inside with the door shut. All housemates would be asked to go inside the house.
Segs: Did you hold him back in the house?
Eazzy: I don’t think so. I mean, of course, we were playing a game and had to partner each other all the time. Biggie reminded us that we were playing a game, against other partners so we had to be close. You’ve got to understand each other; you’ve got to support and help each other. I tried to shape my boyfriend if I felt he was going away because then again, even if it’s a game, I am not ready to lose my relationship for $300 000. We’ve been through a lot.
I don’t know if people saw me shaping my relationship or being close to him as I was holding him, because he is the only person I really know out of the 28 people. He is the only person that I can talk to and share my emotions with and it’s very normal as a girl. As a girl, you know, we love attention. So I don’t know if people think I overdid it or I held him back. I think people just wanted to see him flirting and that’s why they think I was holding him back. Honestly.
Segs: Did you get a chance to say goodbye?
Eazzy: yes, I did. I told Keitta I was not gonna go on stage so he said, “Yes, I know”. So we talked, said our goodbyes and kissed for long hours before the show. He assured me he was gonna be good should he go to upville, go home and be safe for him. Before he went on stage, we hugged and kissed. He knew that I support him. He knew that I was hoping and cheering that he goes to upville. I don’t think that for any second or moment he feels that I abandoned him or anything of that sort. Absolutely not.
Segs: You were horizontal for a big part of your stay, are you pregnant?
Eazzy: (
laughs) Nnnoooo (
taps stomach) I am not pregnant.
Segs: So why were you sleeping so much?
Eazzy: I think that all of that was at a point in time where the house was beginning to get to me. It did get to me. Honestly. And to deal with it I had to sleep. I did not want to break down in front of everybody. There were times when things get to me, I flip. Like what I did when they could not fix my hair.
Segs: This is a question from
Cnglemother, Did Big brother organize some checkups for you and what was the diagnosis? Are you pregnant?
Eazzy: (
laughs) The first doctor’s appointment was for a sore throat and flu. I think it was because of the change of weather, cold weather here. The second one was severe abdominal pains. Cause when I am getting into my periods, I suffer a lot, I need drugs to feel better. The third one was the twisting of my ankle at the football spinning thing, and that was it. I am not pregnant.
Segs: You and keitta discussed your ex a lot… (
Question from Cnglemother)
Eazzy:
O_O Nnooo
Segs: …Keita seems insecure by the ex’s look…
(continues question from Cnglemother) Eazzy: That ex issue is just a very delicate issue. It gets to him all the time, it even gets to me all the time. Every time I talk about it. You know, it’s a topic I would prefer not to discuss because it was really, you know.. but, you know, It always gets to him.. and the day he brought it up I was surprised that he brought it up himself because he never wants to talk about it.
Segs: This is question from Nonwe. Does Keitta cry a lot outside the house?
Eazzy: yes, he does. I think when he wants to let his emotions out, he does. I mean the last 2 days, we were all cry-babies, I cried a lot, and he cried a lot. I don’t know why the camera didn’t capture me, that’s not fair. He does cry a lot. Aahm. Keitta is strong sometimes, but then again he is human and I don’t personally believe that men don’t cry. I think when you have emotions and they overwhelm you. You go down. He was getting used to Olaa and Chris and they left… when did he cry again? One of the evictions, yah… The last time he cried was when we both cried about our separation. It got tense, a lot.
Segs: Esperanca cried a lot.
Eazzy: yah, she went thru a lot.
Segs: Tell us about your take on Seydou and Esperanca.
Eazzy: Well, it is unfair that if one partner has to go, the other partner has to go even if they don’t wanna go. But it’s also unfair to come in with a partner and not support the partner emotionally in all ways you can then the consequences is your partner goes, you go. She was a young girl going thru a lot of stuff, and she needed a friend to be there. You know, and sometimes Edith is there with her sister, I am there with Keitta, in our personal space and time. She needs someone else and it had to be that person from her country, who understood. But they were just worlds apart. It made it very difficult for her. From the start, honestly I liked Seydou but when it got to the part they had to go. Honestly, I did not feel bad for him.
Segs: What are your thoughts about Zainab?
Eazzy: (
laughs) ahhm, Zainab is a crazy girl. There were times that I liked her. I didn’t think she liked me because I was told her mission was to break my relationship up. There’s a lot of things I found out after she left. I thinks she has a bitter person inside. There were times when I thought the little noise and the ranting was a bit too much. I liked Zainab in a way. I would never say she was my favourite girl or anything of that sort but I liked her in a way. I like her honesty, sometimes. She was really honest about a lot of things.
Aahm, but for the part of her having a crush on my boyfriend, I did not think it was a big deal until he mentioned that he would totally wanna go for her if he had 24 hours and choose anyone to lay. I know it was a game but I was not expecting it to go Zainab’s way, I thought it was gonna go Jesica’s way because it was Jesica that he had said over and over again that jesica’s booty is nice. At that point in time, I feel my boyfriend just got confused with a lot of stuff cause he was contradicting himself. One minute, it’s this, another moment, it’s that. It made me feel like aaaww, what is going on here, or are you changing or don’t I know something? You know..
Segs: Did you feel insecure with Zainab than Jesica?
Eazzy: aaahm. yah, at a point. Obviously, there’s a difference between a girl who likes a guy and holds back, and a girl who likes a guy and goes for it... you know?
Segs: Do you feel Zainab was going for it?
Eazzy: yah, I feel Zainab was going for it. She was going for it. If I was not there, maybe he would have slipped, I don’t know.
Segs: But now you are not there, they are both in Upville, how does that make you feel?
Eazzy: (
laughs) I know. Honestly. Right now, I am not sure.
Segs: Have you watched Keitta in Upville, or not yet?
Eazzy: aaahm. I still have not seen him but I am hearing stuff. I heard he was calling my name in the garden last night after he got in.
Segs: Do you think he is playing it out for the camera?
Eazzy: aaahm. There’s a part of me knowing him, the part that has known Keitta for a year and a half, I still find it very hard that he would do certain things. So there are things that I am not sure he was doing for the cameras. I think we have the kind of relationship that if he was gonna do something, he would come to me and say baby I wanna do something funny for the cameras.
Segs: You gave out a lot of personal information on Friday when you were talking sex… especially about Keitta…
Eazzy: (
laughs) He did, as well. It was just a discussion. The only thing that was not true was that he was a virgin. I did say it was a joke after wards (
laughs)
Segs: Who would you have nominated, if you had been given a chance to?
Eazzzy: (
giggles) I think, I… well, I never got along with Tamara from day 1 to the last 2 days so I would have nominated her over and over and over and over again.
Segs: Was it because of Eve’s list of loafers?
Eazzy: No, it was way before that list. Tamara and I had a lot of tension between us. I kept getting a lot of information about things she was saying about me.
Segs: From who?
Eazzy: From Janetta. And I felt like why, I have not even had a chat with her for two minutes. She does not know anything about me. Why do I keep getting all these negative stuff from her.
Segs: Why did you not approach her directly and ask her?
Eazzy: I wanted to go to her several times, I wanted to go to her… several times… (
taps table) but Keitta stopped me. The first time I heard, I wanted to go flippen upstairs and Keitta said “I know you, I know you are not gonna have a normal confrontation with somebody. She might say something and the whole thing will make you flip”. Like, you know, she has a loud mouth.
He was worried if it flips overboard, it might affect him in the game, it was very early in the game, it was like the first week or couple of days. I did not wanna go fight somebody and get my partner kicked out. So I was tolerating it and hoping it would end at a particular time, but it didn’t. So when I had the least chance to snap at her with that list, I just shuuuu… I couldn’t even wait. (
laughs)
Segs: How many tattoos do you have?
Eazzy: I have a lot of tattoos. I have 6 tattoos. Some you can’t see. (
laughs)
Note: to see Eazzy’s tattoos go to www.snaparazzi .co.za
Segs: Are you planning on keeping in touch with anyone from the house.
Eazzy: Definitely! I am gonna keep in touch with Esperanca. Eve is coming to Ghana. So yah, definitely.
*** End of Interview ***
I hope to hear and experience more of her music on our airwaves and music channels. I pray that Big brother does not mess up the beautiful relationship she has with our ftb (Keitta).