Vybz Kartel says he is still traumatized from being cheated on (getting bun and cheese) while serving time in prison.
The dancehall legend is now happily engaged to Sidem Ozturk. However, before that relationship blossomed into what it is now, Vybz Kartel was still with his baby mother, Tanesha ‘Shorty’ Johnson. According to the “Fever” deejay, he and Shorty went their separate ways a few years into his prison term around 2014 after he was sentenced to life for a murder conviction.
At the time, sources told Urban Islandz that Kartel and Shorty were no longer together. This prompted the release of the album To Tanesha, in which the deejay touched on the rocky relationship he has had with the mother of three of his children. Vybz Kartel is now spilling more of the tea about why he and Johnson parted ways after being together for over a decade.
In an interview with Keyshia Ka’oir, Kartel gets candid about being traumatized from being cheated on while in prison. “Which brings me to the next thing, that’s why I told you about the bun and cheese earlier,” he said, to which Ka’oir burst into laughter while asking who is the person that cheated on the deejay. “So hold on baby a who give you the bun a Shorty?” Ka’oir asked Kartel, who held down his head and signaled that he remained tight-lipped. “Let’s just say that every time I see bun, me traumatized, PTSD,” Kartel added.
Keyshia Ka’oir then insisted to Vybz Kartel that Sidem Ozturk would never cheat on him because of the loyalty she displayed throughout his prison stint and leaving from another country to move to Jamaica to support Kartel and his fight for freedom. Sidem previously told Urban Islandz that she was born in Turkey but grew up in England. Kartel shared that she first visited him in Jamaica in 2018 while behind bars. The Jamaican deejay insists that he plans to marry her in the near future.
Vybz Kartel, real name Adidja Palmer, was released from prison on July 31, 2024, after serving almost thirteen years of his sentence. The artist was released months after scoring a major legal victory in the UK Privy Council following a landmark ruling to squash his murder conviction due to jury misconduct. The Jamaican high court later ruled to dismiss the case paving the way for his freedom.
