In 2012, word went round that a famous female musician know for her lavish lifestyle had run broke.
It was claimed the artist known for her gyrating moves in dance had rented a single room in a rickety apartment in Nairobi.
That she had sold off her posh home in Kitengela and had retired to and embraced life in Nairobi's Mathare slum.
This is Rehema Chalamila popularly known as Ray C.
Police in Kinondoni, Tanzania, on Thursday is said to have rescued the artist from committing suicide.
The cops are reported to have been alerted after the Nataka Niwe na Wewe Milele singer screamed at the top of her voice along a road in Manyanya that people out on a kidnap mission were trailing her.
She is said to have arrived in Kinondoni on foot while panting and requested to be protected by people out to kidnap her.
A video making rounds on social media shows the Umenikataa Bila Sababu singer requesting police to give her a knife so that she can protect herself from the kidnappers.
She is also heard asking for a knife so that she can take her own life.
A witness, Esha Buheti, a film actress in Tanzania however, said at an interview with Tanzanian media that the singers claims were only an illusion as there were no people trailing her.
Esha said she had gone out to a shop when she heard that Ray C wanted to commit suicide.
It's until when she went to the scene that she saw her shouting and asking for help as she was being trailed by kidnappers.
At the time, Ray C who featured in Getty's Mama Ntilie song was rolling on a muddy ground asking for a knife.
It's then a police patrol car passing-by picked her up.
In the video seen by this writer on social media, Ray C, while in the police vehicle screams telling police to protect her from the kidnappers.
Ray C has been battling drug addiction for the last four years.
Former Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete who helped the singer get admitted to a rehabilitation centre in April warned her against returning to drug-life.