Ghanaian media personality, Ambassador Osei Kwadwo
Ghanaian media personality Godfred Osei, popularly known as Ambassador Osei Kwadwo, has shared a traumatic experience from his early life where he nearly took his own life.
In an interview with Emelia Brobbey on “Okukuseku the Talk Show” on March 24, 2025, he revealed that during his teenage years, he faced severe economic hardship, to the point where he went without food for five days.
He explained that the dire circumstances led him to a point of contemplating suicide by poisoning himself.
However, he said a song by gospel musician Mama Esther saved him from going through with it.
“After I completed school in 2013, I visited my brother in Kumasi, and he also became sick, so I was left alone. One thing I don’t know how to do is beg for help. I hadn’t eaten for almost five days, and I was in pain. Because of that, I remembered that my brothers had once asked me to keep a pack of rat poison somewhere.
“Just when I was about to drink it, I accidentally sat on a remote control, and the channel changed to a station where they were playing a song by Mama Esther. The song touched my heart, and that was how it prevented me from drinking the poison,” he shared.
Ambassador Osei Kwadwo also opened up on the struggles his mother faced after her divorce.
He disclosed that she was forced to sell their house to pay off her bank loan and, at one point, had to sleep in the bushes.
“Because my parents divorced, my mother had to borrow from the banks and even sell her house. It got to a point where she had to sleep in the bushes so that she wouldn’t be arrested. Sometimes I would wake up early in the morning to see the police in front of our house looking for my mother. I often had to lie, saying that she had travelled,” he said.
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