‘I Almost Ended My Life’ — Ubi Franklin Reflects on Past Mental Health Crisis

Music artist manager and Nigerian native, Ubi Franklin, has recounted an attempted suicide on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State after his marriage to Nollywood actress turned former wife, Lilian Esoro collapsed.

The revelation was said to have been made in a video that Ubi posted on his Instagram page as he was educating his fans through his life story.

Ubi Franklin spoke about his marriage to Lilian saying, “I was depressed and embarrassed after my separation from Lilian.

“I’ve had some crazy, depressing periods but then I realized that not all love stories end the way one had thought.”

Ubi Franklin, who said he attempted suicide several times explained that he once drove to Third Mainland Bridge to commit suicide before being rescued by his cousin brother, Omini Stitches.

“I went through 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 that came to safe me. Omini saved me when I had tried to commit suicide several times. I was so ashamed, I don’t know what to do. I felt like what have I done to deserve all this. Got a pretty good career ahead of me. I got, like, the biggest artist in the country at the time. I felt like it was my time to settle down, everything was good.

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“Sometimes I always feel like this relationship did not work it was just supposed to be that way. I can’t really explain what happened to this day 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 very well. So any opportunity I have to support her, I always do it to the fullest and I pray she continues to do great.” What I want you to learn from this lesson is that 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 on moving.”