"I have no money... I'm a broke man. I'm like you, you're broke and I'm also broke. So, if a woman buys me a shoe that's not bad," Manrick said while speaking to newsmen.
"I'm surviving on my rich woman... if there is anyone that's hurt, come and take it from me. My woman is rich; it's not bad to have a rich girlfriend... she is great, she is the best, and she is great, there is nothing you can tell me... she has everything... there is nothing you can take away from her."
Manrick's comments came out on the same day the father of Sheilah Gashumba, Frank, was heard in a voice note ranting about how his daughter has sunk so low that her boyfriends are now depending on her.
"One day they found me at a restaurant in Nsambya, he was with that rascal and his father, his ears and nose were pierced, with hair that looked like Kony's [Joseph Kony is the founder of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)]. You bring such people to me, Gashumba? Even if I'm dead," Gashumba says in the audio.
He also says that he bought a BMW for Sheilah which she gives her boyfriend who can't afford to repair it.
That recently they (Sheilah and an unidentified boyfriend) wanted Shs4 million to change the car's battery and Gashumba refused, "insisting they only change ignition because the battery is fine."
Gashumba said he had to take the car to have it painted when she traveled to the US.
Her latest trip to the US was in September 2022.
"When she went to America, as a parent, I took on the responsibility to take it for spraying... What kind of man can't buy his own car?" Gashumba wonders.
Meanwhile, Manrick has said he doesn't see himself getting married to Sheilah or having kids with her in the foreseeable future.