Nigerian actor and singer, Ayoola Ayolola has recounted the time he nearly took his life because he was afraid of becoming a parent too soon.
The star of “The Men’s Club” claimed that as soon as he found out he was expecting a child, he became unhappy and considered killing himself in an exclusive interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo.
He described how he attempted to cause an accident by carelessly crossing the street in the hopes of being struck by a car, but he was fortunate to only be slightly injured.
Looking at his son today, Ayoola reflected on his past and said he knew he would have denied the boy a father figure and profoundly regretted what he had done.
He said; “The time the pregnancy for my son came, I wasn’t prepared to be a father. I got depressed and almost took my life. I deliberately miscalculated while crossing the road so that I would be hit and the car just brushed me.
I look at my son now and I’m like, ‘This is what I was about to miss? This is whose live I was about to destroy?’ This little boy would have been fatherless.”
Watch him speak below.
