KINGSTON, Jamaica — Former member of Vybz Kartel’s Portmore Empire, Gaza Indu has praised track and field legend Usain Bolt who she said assisted her with money to start her treatment in overcoming cervical cancer when she was diagnosed in 2014.

She made the revelation in an interview with The Fix podcast where she was speaking on the struggles she faced while Kartel was incarcerated.

Gaza Indu, whose given name is Dashia Muir, shared, “Mi did really sick, you know who mi reach out to? And I’m dying for the day I see him. Yesterday mi see the boss (Vybz Kartel) with him and I said how mi general deh round Bolt and mi nuh see Bolt yet. Bredda, ah Bolt mi reach out to.”

She said the eight-time Olympic gold medallist did not hesitate to help.

“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. Mi a go reach out to her and ask her if she had a number for him’…And I get the number and I messaged him…At two o’clock in the morning, I hear my phone and I get up out of my sleep and when I look at my phone is Bolt replied to me,” Gaza Indu told The Fix.

“In the two o’clock morning, me and him start texting. I told him I have cancer, that I found out I have cancer because dem time deh mi get right down, right down, skin and bone,” she continued.

The Virginity singer said she was admitted to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) that same week but Bolt was quick to help.

“Right in the same week, after me and him done talk, mi end up in the hospital. When mi reach in the hospital and the doctor dem say, ‘you a go down now, you know. You need, need, need to start treatment now’, because I was bleeding away. I bled for like four or five months straight non-stop.

“And when I reach out to him and tell him seh I’m back in the hospital and he called me and said ‘which hospital you deh?’ and mi tell him seh mi deh KPH but over the Jubilee side and he said ‘which ward you deh pon?’ and mi tell him and he said ‘mi a send somebody come to you right now’ and in less than half an hour the person reached and I got the money from him and that’s how I got to start my treatment,” Gaza Indu explained.

“Ah save him save me because if I never get that money to do the marking, mi nuh know wah woulda happen,” she said gratefully.