Tokischa Recalls Turning to Sugar Dating During a Financial Crisis

During Rosalía’s Bogotá concert, Dominican artist Tokischa used an onstage confessional segment to revisit a period when she said she was broke, without a room or a job, and still in a relationship. She told the audience that she decided to look for a sugar daddy because she needed a way to support herself. Tokischa said her boyfriend at the time objected, although both were struggling financially. She recalled finding a prospective benefactor who proposed an encounter involving another woman, so she invited a close friend who was also related to her boyfriend.

According to her account, the meeting did not unfold as the man expected and instead became a comic memory shared between the two women. She said the episode ended in an argument after she returned home, and she and her friend then went out together. The anecdote is notable less for celebrity shock value than for the way Tokischa connected sugar dating to housing and income insecurity. She told it with humor years later, but the starting point was a lack of basic stability and a decision made under pressure. This is Tokischa’s retrospective first-person account delivered as entertainment onstage. LOS40 reported what she said, but the underlying events and other people’s perspectives were not independently verified.