Grammy Award-winning singer Tems recounts her experience of being arrested and confined to a small prison cell in Uganda.
The singer during a recent interview with Angie Martinez, recall her ordeal in a prison. She noted how she only drank water for two days.
She stated that she initially thought it was a joke when she was picked up from her hotel, but the reality sank in when she was handed a filthy and stinky prison uniform. She feared she might not make it out.
She went on to describe her prison room to be very tinny with just a floor, blankets, and some tissues paper.
She was in there for two days, cut off from the world with no clue of what fate awaits her.
Tems said had even thought she may have a purpose by helping people while in prison.
She also revealed that she bonded with other women in the prison, many of whom were held for trivial reasons, some due to corruption involving prison guards.
She said, “I thought I wasn’t gonna come out. I thought I was seeing it for a reason like maybe I was meant to help the people. I was settling in because I adapted real quick and as I was walking in I started to cry because they gave me my uniform and it stunk because they don’t wash it. It was a small room and there was nothing, there’s just the floor they give you blankets and tissues and you’re just on the floor, no bed and I did it for two days. I didn’t even know I was going to get out, I didn’t have any ears on the ground nobody told me anything. Outside everyone was like ‘free Tems, free Omah lay but inside I was just hopeful, waiting.”
The singer also noted that she had to survive on only water for two days, because of the strict rules in the women prison, she noted that they had to kneel while speaking to the official or to get their food.
