The multiple award-winning singer Okyeame Kwame has opined that the media and other players in the entertainment industry owes it a duty to help protect the sanity of celebrities.
Speaking to Kwame Dadzie on Joy FM’s Showbiz A-Z , he emphasized that some of the things the media report have adverse effects on the mental health of creatives.
“Artistes are human beings. He comes to sit on platforms like this and speaks out his heart and shares his vulnerable moment. And then you take that part out and twist it for clickbait and then everyone is calling him. Because of that some girl he wants to marry says no, people are beginning to see him in a certain light, because you want clickbait. If you love the artiste, stop that,” he added.
Meanwhile, he has advised his fellow celebrities on the importance of building mental resilience against online trolls.
“I think that you need to build mental resilience; you personally. Because you need to understand that what people are doing, the world is not happening on your clock. Yes, you have 2.5 million followers on Instagram but they are following you to see something. When people insult you on Twitter and Facebook and others you shouldn’t own it because that is what they want to do.
”So build mental resilience and know that even though you are celebrated, the world is not happening on your clock and I think that if you do this and listen to your body, you don’t intoxicate yourself with too much data, too much reading, with too much alcohol, with too much pills, with too much sex, and you are in tune with yourself you can hear if your heart is about to get an attack,” he said
