Veteran TV host Frank Edoho has spoken candidly about emotional struggles, revealing that one of his greatest fears is dying because of heartbreak or emotional pain linked to a woman.
The popular broadcaster made the emotional disclosure during an interview on the YouTube show Outside The Box, where he reflected on mental health, masculinity and the silent battles many men endure behind closed doors.
“I don’t want to go to the gates of heaven and they ask me what killed me and they say it’s a woman,” Edoho said.
“Whether that woman be my daughter, my wife, my mother, I don’t want that. I don’t want that to be my way out of this portal.”
The former Who Wants to Be a Millionaire host said he hopes to be remembered as someone who brought joy and positivity into the lives of others rather than someone consumed by regret.
“I want to die with a smile on my face saying that all the people I met, I tried to put a smile on their face,” he said.
“And to have the only regret that I wish I did more good. Not that I wish I had more time.”
Edoho also used the interview to highlight what he described as the hidden emotional burden carried by many men, noting that societal expectations often force them to suffer in silence.
“The task of manhood is very daunting. Men don’t speak. Men go through a lot,” he said.
“Whatever a man is going through, he’s just silent. He doesn’t say it. He holds it to himself. And some of them go to the grave with it.”
The broadcaster revealed that he personally battled a dark emotional period for two years without confiding in anyone around him.
According to him, his experience in broadcasting trained him to conceal pain and maintain composure publicly, even when struggling internally.
“For two years, there was a couple of years back I was in a very dark hole but nobody knew,” he disclosed.
“I just said, this is a journey I have to make on myself to reorganise myself. But at the time, I thought the walls were caving in.”
Edoho explained that working in television taught him how to wear a “poker face” regardless of personal difficulties.
“No matter what you’re going through, when it’s time to go on air, you have to show up,” he said.
“But ironically, I can’t do it in real life. I can’t switch off like I switch off when the microphone is in front of me.”
His comments have since sparked conversations online about men’s mental health, emotional vulnerability and the pressure many men face to appear strong despite personal struggles.
