Simi breaks silence on backlash over old tweets

Nigerian vocalist Simisola Bolatito Kosoko, popularly known arsenic Simi, has responded to the backlash pursuing the resurfacing of her aged tweets from implicit a decade.

The contention began aft Simi made a beardown connection calling for rapists to beryllium “burnt and castrated” amid the ongoing intersexual battle lawsuit involving TikToker Mirabel, who aboriginal retracted her claims.

Her comments generated mixed reactions online, starring to societal media users digging done Simi’s idiosyncratic feed, uncovering tweets from 2012.

In immoderate of the aged posts, Simi wrote astir a four-year-old having a crush connected her and “acting similar helium wana loc lip,” and successful another, she joked astir the kid “trying to enactment manus wrong my shet (sic)”.

Reacting to this, Simi took to her X leafage to clarify the tweets.

She said, “I haven’t been connected Twitter today, but idiosyncratic brought a fewer of my aged tweets to my attention, and I can’t not code it. 14 years ago, I was 23, truthful I was decidedly not a child. I’m not present to marque excuses due to the fact that I don’t person thing to marque excuses for. What I can’t fto anyone bash is twist my communicative to acceptable mendacious narratives.”

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