R&B singer SZA has a strange life story, Media Take Out has learned. The soul singer told Births Vogue that she’s in an emotional relationship with her longtime best friend, a woman named Amber. And her life story – up until now, is very unusual.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 05: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) SZA speaks onstage during the 65th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 05, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Amber and SZA first met at college orientation at Delaware State University in the late 2000s. And now that have an unusual, yet intimate relationship.
They first connected over “being strange”, Amber explained to the British mag. “[SZA] didn’t necessarily fit in in high school, and I didn’t really fit in ever or have anybody to really relate to outside of my sister.” SZA agrees: “It’s the feeling of otherness in all situations. Sometimes it’s like a cold feeling of ‘we’re outside of this’. I don’t feel that I belong here, but somehow we belong with each other.”
SZA then told British Vogue that she wants to start a family with Amber. “It’s sad. It’s like, if I don’t have a child in the next year or two, I might not. But I might have a kid any day – for real,” she says.
“She’s the only person that I could have a child with at this point.” (Amber reverts to silence.) “I’ll just wear her down eventually. But who else would be a life partner? [Men] come and go, like the wind. They’re insane. Mentally unwell.”
SZA also gave more insight into her bizarre life. She dropped out of college in her final semester – and became a stripper, Media take Out has learned. She also was a heavy user of the dr*g Adderall.
She was bartending and sometimes dancing at strip clubs, selling grills for studio time, “trying to figure out” who she was. There were warrants out for her hopping trains and shoplifting (“But my record is expunged, so it doesn’t exist. I don’t do crime”).
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 04: SZA accepts the “Best R&B Song” award for “Snooze” onstage during the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Sza also says that she has a mysterious illness, that causes her hair to fall out and her hands to peel. “My nail beds were separating from my fingers and coming off. It was so gross.” Only medication – dexamethasone, Plaquenil, prednisone, could provide relief.
US singer SZA performs on stage at the Roskilde music Festival on July 6, 2024 in Roskilde, Denmark. (Photo by Torben Christensen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP) / Denmark OUT (Photo by TORBEN CHRISTENSEN/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)
SZA has mixed feelings about her botched BBL. She explained, “I gained all this weight from being immobile while recovering and trying to preserve the fat. It was just so stupid. But who gives a fuck? You got a BBL, you realise you didn’t need the shit. It doesn’t matter. I’ll do a whole bunch more shit just like it if I want to before I’m fucking dead because this body is temporary.”
She continued, “It just wasn’t super necessary – I have other shit that I need to work on about myself… I need to get my fucking mental health together… Not to say you can’t do those things simultaneously, just, for me, I realise wherever you go, there you’ll be. But I love my butt. Don’t get me wrong. My booty look nice. And I’m grateful that it looks pretty much… I don’t know, sometimes natural, but I don’t even care. It’s something that I wanted. I’m enjoying it. I love shaking it.”
