I Almost Committed Suicide Last Year - Comedian Owen Gee reveals

 

 Nigerian comedian, Owen Gee has shared a rare personal story about his struggles in life. 

 

The comedian who makes many people happy with his jokes revealed that he contemplated suicide in 2017 when he was pushed to the wall by thorny circumstances. Owen Gee narrated the experience on Sunday during the unveiling of Live and not Die. He said: “I have had suicidal tendencies."

 

his words: “Last year, I tried several things, but they did not work out. It was not because the ideas were bad, but the people I was working with just didn’t let them work out. Then anxity and depression set in.

“It was then I realised that no drug could calm depression. There was hardly anyone I didn’t take. There was a time I was sleeping on drugs. There was a particular yellow tablet that, if I took it on Tuesday, on Wednesday I would only be prompted to barely wake up, eat and go back to sleep even before I finished eating. I would not wake up until Thursday.”

 

 

 

 

Owen Gee explained how he eventually came to the reality that he had the responsibility to handle his issues with tact and live to take care of his children. He advised the guests to shun fake life – the type of which, he noted, was prevalent in the showbiz arena in Nigeria.