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The former member of Vybz Kartel’s Portmore Empire has given an account of how the eight-time Olympics champion came to her aid at her hour of need, helping her overcome cancer.
Jamaican musician Gaza Indu, real name Dashia Muir, has revealed how legendary sprinter Usain Bolt came to her aid, helping her with financial resources that enabled her to beat cancer.
Gaza Indu, a former member of Vybz Kartel’s Portmore Empire, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2014 but had no money to begin her treatment after dancehall star Kartel had been incarcerated.
However, through a friend, she was able to reach Bolt, whom she told her story and she was surprised when the 100m, and 200m record holder came to her assistance.
“I was really sick, you know who I reached out to? And I’m dying for the day I see him. Yesterday I saw the boss (Vybz Kartel) with him and I said how my general is around Bolt and I don’t see Bolt yet. Brother, ah Bolt I reached out to,” she told the Fix Podcast.
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“I linked one of my friends and said ‘you don’t have a number for Bolt?’ and they said ‘you know, I have a number for his ex-girlfriend. I'm going to reach out to her and ask her if she had a number for him’.
“And I got the number and I messaged him…At two o'clock in the morning, I heard my phone and I got up out of my sleep and when I look at my phone, Bolt replied to me,” she added regarding her big surprise.
“At two o’clock in the morning, me and him started texting. I told him I had cancer, that I found out I had cancer because those times I got right down, right down, skin and bone,” said the Trinity singer.
The singer would be admitted to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) the same week and it was while she was there that Bolt came through for her in a big way.
“And when I reached out to him and told him I'm back in the hospital and he called me and said 'which hospital are you at?' and I told him I'm at KPH but over the Jubilee side and he said 'which ward are you on?' and I told him and he said 'I'm sending someone come to you right now' and in less than half an hour, the person arrived and I got the money from him and that’s how I got to start my treatment,” Gaza Indu further explained.
“I’m saving him saving me because if I never got that money to do the marking, I don’t know what would have happened.”
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It is an act of generosity that has endeared the eight-time Olympics champion to the singer, showing another side of him that fans perhaps did not know.
Bolt is a big fan of Vybz Kartel and also a friend of the musician which perhaps helped smoothen the relationship between him and Gaza Indu.
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