Ghanaian singer, Mzbel, has narrated how she suffered from the Stockholm Syndrome from her former manager.

Stockholm syndrome is defined as a condition in which hostages develop a psychological alliance with their captors during captivity. This term was first used by the media in 1973 when four hostages were taken during a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mzbel revealed that her manager, Daniel, who was her boyfriend at that period abused her so much physically while they worked together that she could not bear to leave him.

“It was actually my first relationship. I was not a teenager. I was old, but he was very old. He was like I think thirty-something years older than me, but he was nice, he was kind. He was the daddy I never had. He was my producer, my man, my best friend. He was there. He gave me stuff that I never got.” She said.

The celebrity confessed this to Frema Adunyame and Ato Kwamina on Citi TV’s Upside Down show as she conceded that Daniel was a god to her.

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“He got jealous because now everybody wants a piece of Mzbel and he blocked a lot of my shows. When I get gigs from London, he wants to go with me and they say okay, this is a low budget show, you can’t come, but we’ll take care of her. He’d cancel the show. He wouldn’t let me go anywhere alone. He wants to check my phone calls, my messages.”

“And if I cannot tell him why this person is texting me this or that, he will beat the hell out of me. If I take off my wig right now and you check my forehead, I don’t have any hair there anymore. I used to braid my hair. When he’s beating me, he’d just grab my wig and throw me like this (all about),” she narrated.

The "Awoso Me" hitmaker said that she could not report him to the police because he took her from her “very poor background” and gave “me the life that I never had.” She recommended that artistes should not have any form of relationship with their managers.

She revealed music was never part of her plans, although she was the assistant Entertainment Prefect during her days at Abuakwa State College. She said she wanted to be a media person which pushed her to the studio to learn on attachment and was pushed to try her skills till her first song was released.