Nigerian music artist manager, Ubi Franklin, has recalled an attempted suicide on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State following the collapse of his marriage to Nollywood actress cum former wife, Lilian Esoro.
Ubi was said to have made the revelation in a video that he posted on his Instagram page while educating his fans through his life story.
Speaking about his marriage to Lilian, Ubi Franklin said, “I got depressed and embarrassed after my separation from Lilian.
“I’ve had some crazy, depressing periods but later I understood that not all love stories end the way one had thought.”
Ubi Franklin, who said that he attempted suicide several times, said that he once drove to Third Mainland Bridge to commit suicide, before he was rescued by his cousin brother, Omini Stitches.
Read Also: Otedola Deepens First HoldCo Holdings with Fresh N77.6 Billion Transaction
“I had some crazy depressing positions,” he said. I remember one time I bought a red CL, I drove that car to the third Mainland bridge to go and commit suicide.
“The only luck I had was my cousin brother Omini Stitches who came to save me. Omini saved me when I tried to kill myself several times. I was so embarrassed, I don’t know what to do. I thought, what have I done to deserve all this. I got a pretty good career ahead of me. I have, like, the biggest artist in the country at the time. I think it was my time to settle down, everything was good.
“Sometimes I always feel like this relationship did not work it was just supposed to be that way. To this day I can’t really explain what exactly happened but we are now very good friends. We are very good co-parents, we celebrate events of our son . So sometimes I have always believed that no matter how much pain, the best result that I got from that was my son. And she’s still doing really well. So any chance I get to support her, I always do it to the fullest and I pray she keeps doing great.” What I want you to learn from this lesson is I don’t want you to think that when something happens sometimes with the human being, you have to hate the human being. That is not the case. Sometimes it’s just an opportunity for you to learn from the process and keep it moving.”