Jalang’o recently opened up about the acutely distressing
experience he had with a girl he met when he was just new in the industry.
A girl who was in love with the glitz and the glam and not
the Jalang’o who lived in Mwiki.
“When she came visiting me in Mwiki she realized that it
isn’t all glitter and glam. She visited me twice in my place and after visiting
me the second time she was like this is not the life she expected so she broke
it off and got into another relationship. I don’t think that relationship went
well.” Jalang’o told Jeff on Hot 96.
“So, one day she called me and told me there is something
she wanted to tell me, at that time I was at Kiss, everybody knew Jalang’o. She
wanted to come back because things were picking up for me. She later told me
had been pregnant, had a baby and the child was mine.”
A revelation that came as a shock as she had been silent for
three to four years about the said baby. During the meeting, she demanded for
child support and when Jalang’o asked for a DNA test she threatened that she
would leak the information about Jalang’o being a deadbeat dad to the blogs.
She even drafted a story which she threatened to forward to
the gossip blogs to taint his name and it worked as Jalang’o was afraid of what
this would do to his brand. “What will people think about me? It used to
eat me up, every time she sent the story to me I would send her money.”He
confessed.
Tired of the blackmail, Jalang’o asked her to bring the
child so they could go for a DNA test and so that he could also see the child
for the first time ever. On the day they were supposed to meet she brought nail
clippings and hair trimmings claiming that that’s she was advised to do when it
came to a DNA test, but no child.
Further attempts to see the child failed miserably as they
would organize for meetings and she wouldn’t show up. Jalang’o even went to
Mombasa to see them but she didn’t show up or bring the baby.
The situation became really bad to a point when Jalang’o
went to Mombasa to party, she would send him pics of the baby in tatters with a
message saying “You are having fun and we are starving, your baby has not
had food.”
The messages to Jalang’o were not the only thing. “She
was part of the reason I broke up with my baby mama since she started sending
her threatening messages.”
“I was always trying to protect my brand. Nobody could know about this.” He said on why he tolerated what was going on.
“I have never seen that child up to today and the kid is
about 9 to 10 years. It’s a hard situation being in the limelight, some people don’t
understand what we go through. My main reason to come out is for her to know
I’ve opened up about this story. No more money until the DNA test is done.” Jalang’o
added concluding his story.
