By Ibrahim Salaudeen, Lagos
Former host of ‘Your View,’ the renowned morning show on TVC, Morayo Afolabi- Brown has given insight into her battles with depression at a certain phase of her life.
Morayo Afolabi- Brown who recently resigned from the television programme, revealed that at a time during her struggles with depression, she once contemplated súicidé and walked on the expressway, hoping that a moving car would knock her down – apparently to end it there, but none did.
She disclosed this in an interview with Chude Jideonwo, a media personality.
“I was depressed. It got so bad that I thought I was suicidal. I just left everything. I remember just walking on the express, hoping a car would hit me. It was that bad,” she said.
She also revealed why she stepped away from ‘Your View,’ saying at the 10th anniversary of the show, she already knew it was time to move on.
She said, “It was when we were 10 years old that I knew it was time to go to the next thing. I’ve been harbouring that thought for a while, but I just didn’t know to what or to wear, you know. But I think last year, I got that light bulb moment.”
She also recounted the time she was fired from TVC due to political issues but her identity was later clarified by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, according to The Nation report.
“People now called Asiwaju, do you know whose child was sacked? He said, I’m not aware. He said, This is the Alao Aka- Bashorun’s daughter. That’s when he knew it was me,” she recalled.
The broadcaster addressed some of her biggest controversies when she openly supported Tinubu during the 2023 elections.
She also clarified that her initial criticisms of the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) and ex – Governor, Peter Obi, were derived from ignorance.
“It was because I did not know him. After I made that comment, people called me and said, ‘Morayo, do you realise that when he was governor, he actually served us?’ So that was him. I said, ‘Oh, I did not know.’ ,” she confessed.
The media personality also recalled another major scandal that hit her following the backlash of an on-air conversation that was misconstrued as accusations that she had called her husband a pedophile.
She said that it took the intervention of the First Lady to help her make amends and apologise to her husband publicly.
