Bullying Is Pandemic, Ubi Franklin Again Opens Up On His Suicide Attempts

Even though everyone has one or two problems to battle with, we have different ways of dealing with them and such is the case with music artiste manager, Ubi Franklin, who attempted suicide several times three years ago.

In a tweet on Wednesday, where he shared a clip of a young man, Izu who took his own life, after reading out his suicide note.

Franklin recounted his unsuccessful suicide attempts and how far he has come in life that he got so much bullied on social media, Instagram to be precise.

The music executive said he braced up himself and shunned the bullies when he realized that most of the trolls are not related to him in any manner.

Read his tweets below

“I watched this video of IZU reading out his suicide note before he took his life and I remembered doing this several times 3 years ago unsuccessfully and I am here today.

“I got bullied so much on Instagram in the last two years that I started getting depressed again and this time I told myself “Ubi” who are these people talking about you? Do you know them or their families?

"Everyone has something they are hiding and won’t tell the public but go on social media to bully others of things that they also have done or their parents have or their brothers, sisters, and friends have done."

“Why bother yourself with people who contribute nothing to your life? Are you the rst to have a failed marriage? Are you the rst to have kids from 4 different women? Have your learnt from your past? Then came the big question, How can you do better ?

“So I started using my platform to speak against the mistakes I have made in life that I feel can be avoided by someone watching my lives or reading about how I have turned my dark days into brighter/ beautiful days and letting people know the truth that is not always told on SM

“Social media is full of controlled narratives, the things that don’t make social media that I know are many.

“Do married men come on social media to say they have multiple girlfriends? Or do married women come on social media to they have a side guy/guys?

“Do all the Big girls on social media tell how they made their money to live the lives that you are depressed about?

“Stop Bullying people on social media, it’s another Pandemic on its own. You are not any perfect and you will never be, When you see people’s struggles on social media and you judge them and then forgetting how horrible you are in your own controlled reality life and how you can’t even feed, how you sleep with married men to make money.”

 

 

 

 

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In September 2019, Franklin shared a photo he took on one of the days he attempted it, he said “April 23rd 2017 after this photoshoot I wanted this to be the last pictures I will take in my life. On this day I was depressed out of my mind and wanted to take my life.”

“Whatever you are going through now I promise you it’s a phase, keep pushing it will pass."