Melanie Bala speaks on split from Zwai Bala five months after announcement

After announcing their split in October 2017, Melanie and Zwai Bala went silent.

Melanie has however resurfaced and openly shared about their split.

“We were together for 17 years and who you are when you meet at 20-something is a lot different to who you are when you are 40-something. You grow. You change. You evolve.”

For Melanie, after their relationship was getting strained, she knew that they had to be mature about it and not stay unhappy.

“It is about saying are you able to bring the best out of a person and when you are no longer able to do that, you should be mature enough to say: ‘You know what? Neither of us wants to be unhappy. I don’t want you to be unhappy.”

Melanie didn’t want to spend a lifetime fighting.