Rapper and reality TV star Nadia Nakai opened up about the moment she received the news about her late boyfriend AKA’s passing.
AKA, real name Kiernan Jarryd Forbes was tragically shot and killed outside a restaurant in Durban, in February 2023 alongside his friend and celebrity chef Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane.
Nadia expressed her struggles with accepting his death on her social media platform a few months after AKA passed away.
As she begins to reconstruct her life, Nadia claims that she is gradually regaining the courage to move forward with her life.
During her sit down interview on L-Tido Podcast, the reality TV talked about the night she received the devastating news about her partner AKA.
She explained what had transpired and how she had learned of his untimely dealth.
“I was at Ayanda’s birthday where she had asked me to perform… I spoke to AKA 10 minutes before he passed away.”
“He called me in the greatest spirit… ‘Baby what are you wearing…’ And he’s like ‘the boys and I are about to leave, [we are going to the club]’.
“Then like 10 minutes later, Azola comes to me, pulls me aside and she says ‘babes, Kiernan got shot’,” explained Nadia.
Nadia claimed that she didn’t completely realise how serious the issue was until she learned that it was “fatal.”
“It did not register to me that he was shot fatally at all until I got the news that it was fatal. I thought he was probably shot in the shoulder or the leg, and I was like ‘shot, what do you mean shot?’ It did not register.”
Nadia also explained how she left everything behind and rushed to Durban at the scene where the incident had occurred.
“Everybody started coming to the house, we got into the car and drove straight to Durban immediately that evening which was also pointless to because there was nothing I could do, but I was like I have to get there.”
“When we got there in a few hours, I saw the boys and they were all distraught. Then I went to the airport and flew back to Joburg and then Tony and Steph arrived,” recalled Nadia.
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