I wanted to change Bebe before marriage but love won - Zuena

"The first time we met, he told me, this is fast,... but I love you... you know, I was looking at a rascal; how do you tell someone I love you the first time you meet them? That's super naughtiness... I also had my plans, that if he tells me he wants to marry me, I will tell him to stop singing, cut his hair, change his dress code,... but nothing... But when I fell in love, I followed his lead," Kirema said in a video seen by this reporter.

Kirema said she was even hesitant to meet him and she only allowed it after friends kept on encouraging her.

"My friends would tell me, that's Bebe Cool,... but I was looking at a rascal. And I would tell myself if I call him, what are we going to talk about?"

Bebe Cool and Zuena Kirema Pulse

Zuena said the first time she called, she would later learn from Bebe Cool, he was in the bathroom. It's a friend who picked up the phone and informed Cool.

He told her he was in Mbale and that he would see her the next day.

This is how she described their first encounter: "He had an army green vest that he usually wore. It's what he liked wearing. I think he thought it was the best. I saw the vest and shaggy hair coming from a distance, and I told my sister that that's the guy that has been disturbing me."

When Cool arrived, he offered to buy them drinks, but they already bought theirs and they declined, according to Zuena.

Zuena Kirema Pulse

The couple got married in a civil ceremony on September 12, 2003, at Crane Chambers. In 2009, they momentarily separated after reports emerged that he cheated.

Zuena and Bebe reconnected after he reportedly apologized. Zuena dropped out of school while in S.4 when she was 16 to date Cool.

She said her favourite Bebe Cool songs are Wakayima and Wire Wire.