Award-winning Nigerian singer, Tiwatope Omolara Savage, known professionally as Tiwa Savage, has revealed that she had abandoned her passion of acting because she had a crush on a man.

Tiwa claimed that she gave up on her ambition to be an actress and pursued music instead in order to be near her crush, who was frequently surrounded by artists.

In an interview with MTV Live, Tiwa disclosed this while discussing her work as a producer and promoting “Water and Garri,” her upcoming film project.

Acting is a full circle moment for the mother-of-one, who made her Nollywood debut in the soon-to-be-released film.

She said; “I’ve always wanted to do acting. Acting was one of my first love before music. I got into music because I had a crush on a guy and he was always around the musician so I said ‘Yeah, forget acting and just go into music.’

“So this is a full circle moment for me to come back into doing acting. And executive producing is like a dream for me.”

Watch her speak below.