Iyanya granted an interview to the Nation in Nigeria where he revealed the main reason why he and his girlfriend, Yvonne Nelson split. The media gave their own versions of what caused the break-up but the Kukere hitmaker has highlighted the truth behind the separation.
He emphasised that as a young musician who was trying to gain prominence he had to work hard to make more money which means he has to respond to every gig he was booked for. This made it impossible for him to have get adequate time for his Ghanaian girlfriend.
See below for what he said:
On whom he was dating;
“I am not in a relationship and I will tell you why. It’s not that I don’t want a woman in my life but the thing I that being Iyanya alone is so much work,” said Iyanya.
So much pressure and so much sleepless night. Oh yea lets chill, oh no I gotta go now, I’m flying over this Friday to spend the weekend with you and I be like okay, come over and when she touched down, I have to go somewhere this night. So all that stuffs is really making it hard for me to have a relationship because not everybody is able to accept the fact that I’m going to be in love with somebody who is not going to be around always.”
When asked if not being around caused the split between him and Ghanaian actress Yvonne Nelson he said;
“that was the main reason actually, although the media will always be the media. But we broke up because we hardly had time for each other. So, it’s like every time she flies from Ghana to Nigeria during that time I drop Kukere I was hustling and I would do four shows in a day and I will make 2million because I was hustling boy and any call at any time I was going for it. So, I won’t say because I was in love with a woman I’m going to see money and I’m going to lay back.
“When you have a girlfriend and she’s watching your Snapchat seeing girls back stage hugging you she will be like hell no! I can’t do this sh!t. And then you finally found a nice girl that’s ready to cope with all that and her parents are like Musician keh? So I just have to do my music and make money.”
