Nigerian singer Ruger has revealed a deeply personal and unexpected source of trauma in a candid moment on the Bro Bants show. The “Asiwaju” hitmaker shared that his first heartbreak happened when he was just six years old and that it left a lasting mark on his emotional development.
According to Ruger, the emotional wound came from an older woman he admired as a child, someone he believed was his “girlfriend” simply because she affectionately called him “my boyfriend.” At that tender age, the words meant everything to him. He had no idea what heartbreak was until it hit him hard.
One day, young Ruger saw her being intimate with another man through a window. The image stuck with him. “I was just 6 years old,” he said, “and I saw some guy smashing her through her window. The guy was tearing her up, bro. I cried. I was traumatised.”
The memory didn’t just hurt ,it rewired how he processed relationships and emotions. “That experience broke my heart,” Ruger said. “I started singing ‘Imagine That’ by Styl-Plus. That was what started my toxicity.”
While his storytelling was peppered with humor, the moment felt raw and revealing. It was a reminder that trauma doesn’t always come from the big, obvious events—sometimes it’s the moments you don’t yet understand that shape you the most.
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