Ubi Franklin Message carries a silence painful story about his marriage to Lilian Esoro, suicide attempts, and the deep lessons learned while co-parenting their son.
“Ubi Franklin just opened up about something most people only whispered about, and hearing it laid out in his own words is a lot to sit with.
“Ubi Franklin don carry this thing for a long time. He build Made Men Music Group into one of the biggest labels in Nigerian music, but none of that success prepare am for wetin him personal life was about to put am through.
He don finally decide to talk about everything—including the part wey most people never know: he go Third Mainland Bridge more than once with intention to jump. The public shame of how him marriage collapse bring am to that point multiple times.
To understand how e reach there, you gats go back to the beginning. March 19, 2015. Franklin plan wetin suppose be the happiest night of him life—one elaborate engagement dinner for Red Restaurant inside Eko Hotel.”
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The kind of thing you plan carefully—the right venue, the right crowd, industry friends, people who matter. He proposed to Lilian Esoro in front of all of them. And she dropped the ring and disappeared.
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“His words: ‘I was so embarrassed because it was a big thing on social media. Have you ever cried to the point where you get to a certain level that you cannot cry again?’ That question doesn’t need explaining. Anyone who has ever been that broken knows the exact place he’s describing.” Ubi Franklin Message
That’s where I was. I couldn’t stay in my house. I ran to Iyanya’s house to see if I could find her because she disappeared.’
That quote doesn’t need any commentary. You can feel exactly where he was.
She resurfaced two days later at his hotel room, said it was cold feet, and the two of them flew to London to try to put things back together. They came back to Lagos on April 6 for the AY Live comedy show. The very next morning, he walked into his room and found the ring sitting on the bed again. No note. No explanation. Just the ring. Ubi Franklin Message
“They made up in June 2015, had the wedding and got married. But the relationship was already broken. Some cracks never fully mend.” The marriage fell apart, and suddenly his personal life—every detail of it—was being picked apart publicly by people who had no stake in any of it.
For someone who had spent years building a career, a brand, a reputation, watching all of that play out on Nigerian social media while he was genuinely falling apart internally was its own particular kind of suffering. Ubi Franklin Message
He started driving to Third Mainland Bridge. His red Mercedes-Benz CLA. The intention each time was to jump. ‘The only luck I had was that my cousin came to save me. Several times I tried to attempt it, and he saved me,’ he said.
He kept asking himself what he had done to deserve any of it—especially when by every external measure, his music business was doing well. Success on one side. Complete personal collapse on the other. Ubi Franklin Message
That’s the part of this story that deserves to stay with people longer than the engagement drama does.
Franklin is telling this story now from a different place. He says he doesn’t carry hatred for Lilian. He genuinely means that—not in the way people say it when they still clearly do, but in the way someone speaks when they’ve actually done the internal work. He calls the whole experience a life lesson. He means that too. Ubi Franklin Message
Today, the two of them co-parent their son Jayden together, and by all accounts they do it well. No public fights. No social media wars. Just two adults choosing to be decent to each other for the sake of a child who had nothing to do with any of it.
‘We didn’t go on social media to fight ourselves. We didn’t kill anybody. We became good friends, and we try to live a good life for our son,’ he said. ‘If something happens between you and somebody, sometimes it’s just an opportunity for you to learn from the process and keep it moving.’ Ubi Franklin Message
There are people in Nigeria right now going through something similar—maybe not this specific story, but the same combination of public humiliation, private devastation, and the feeling that there’s no way through. Ubi Franklin talking about standing on that bridge, repeatedly, is the kind of thing that might reach one of those people. That’s worth more than any entertainment headline.”
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