Sponsors Felt My Pain When I Shared What Led To My Divorce – Frank Edoho

Veteran TV presenter, Frank Edoho has come out to open up about the challenges he faced in his first marriage.

He recently had his say during an interview with Chude Jideonwo, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, the rumors of him committing domestic violence and being a wife-beater threatened his job as the host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and it took a meeting with the sponsors where he bore his heart out for him to be retained.

Frank added that after telling his marital story, 2 female sponsors even started weeping for him.

His words, “My ex-wife was my friend, and there were children involved. I think ours was a mismatch; I was young. When she got pregnant, I had cold feet, but I still got married. It lasted seven years, and in 2010, I left. Three years later, I remarried. Being friends with the opposite sex doesn’t mean you should get married because that’s a different ball game. In hindsight, maybe I should have thought about it a bit more.

She was my good friend, but I think it was love too. I also believe we didn’t examine our relationship thoroughly before we delved into it. I’m not going to say it was solely her fault; it was my fault too, but not in the way people were depicting it.

That was one of the times I was very depressed, but I couldn’t say anything. The first crisis happened in 2007, but I still stayed on for three years; then it came to a head in 2010, and I left.

When I left, I was still doing Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; then all of a sudden, I was in the UK, and my boss called me and told me to come back to Lagos because the sponsors were hearing things about me. They said I wasn’t going to present this show anymore because of those rumours. I got on a flight the following morning to attend a meeting with them.

Luckily, my boss knew everything because I’d been telling him about the altercations between us. I was also thinking about my children. They said I committed domestic violence and I was a wife-beater.

After listening to them, I told them I would tell them everything, starting from when I was dating. By the time I reached marriage and the birth of my son and first daughter, two of the ladies were crying. I was providing accounts of everything that happened, and I told them that I have receipts. I said nobody divorced me; I took my suitcase and left the marriage.”

WOW.