Tyla’s mom had “premonitions” that her daughter was pregnant, and the “Water” singer duped her with a prank call. As part of Elle‘s Phoning It In segment on Monday (Sept. 23), Tyla made a few prank calls to her mother, Central Cee, her manager and more. She attempted to scare her mom, Sharleen Seethal, with a pregnancy prank, but things took a turn when her mom had a feeling the singer was pregnant.
“Mom, I think I’m pregnant,” begins Tyla, who recently accepted Billboard‘s Global Force award at the R&B No. 1s party.
Her mom replied: “Yeah, I’m happy. I had a feeling for a long time. That’s what I’m seriously shocked about. Oh my God. I swear to God. I had premonitions. I swear to God.”
“I don’t know who the father is,” Tyla continued. She couldn’t lead her mother on any longer and fessed up to the prank.
“Tyla, but I had a premonition,” Seethal countered. “I spoke to Auntie Mila and I told her I need grandchildren. Oh my God, Tyla. Am I supposed to scream?”
While Tyla isn’t actually pregnant, her mother clearly wants her 22-year-old daughter to give her some grandchildren in the future.
As for Central Cee, Tyla went with the prank that she was flying to London, but her Airbnb wasn’t ready and her team needed a place to stay in the U.K. in the meantime.
“I’m supposed to go to London tomorrow and I just have a problem,” she told him. “Literally, like, my whole family is meeting me there and I booked an Airbnb and everything … They said the wait is going to be, like, a few hours before they can actually get in so I was just wondering if they could, like, maybe wait at your place.”
Cench said: “This is the maddest question I think anyone’s ever asked me.”
She eventually gave up on the prank, but Central Cee was happy that he showed he was willing to step up and house Tyla and her party of five.
Watch the full clip below.
