Sad Truth about Why I Started Wearing Sunglasses Everywhere - Taymesan

Many people think that once you get to the top, once you find fame and fortune, that everything will be smooth-sailing and joy from there. But that's not always the case, and it for sure was not the case for media personality Taymesan who is a new interview with Pulse Nigeria, opening up about how he fell into depression and even started having very dark thoughts after he became famous. Here's what Taymesan said.

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Speaking about how he fell into a very dark place after becoming famous, and why he started wearing sunglasses everywhere, Taymesan said:

TAYMESAN: At some point, I wanted to let go of the career. Like, I wanted peace of mind. My biggest issue was that how can you get here, you have struggled to get here and yet you don't have peace, you're not happy. I had money. That's when I was traveling up and down. I thought that traveling up and down would solve the internal issues, it didn't.

When people say they go through depression, I used to be like abeg gerrout. What's depression as life sweet reach? But then, when I would wake up in the morning, I would not want to get out of bed. I'm only beginning to understand what I was going through was depression. I was so unhappy and it was not unhappiness that was fleeting, it was constant. It was like everyday was a struggle.

I started going to church and I would cry in church so much that I would have to cover up my with my shades, like my sunglasses, that's why I started wearing sunglasses so much because the tears were just flowing. And now I realize that God was purging out the things that were in me that were hurting me, but at the time, I was just like this is too much for me. This is too much for me and I didn't have an outlet.

Because at the time, I was also messing with friends who were not exactly like deep, we were just always surface y'know because I'd gotten into the celebrity space. So there was nobody I could talk to, and also like even though there were some people that I could speak to, these things were deeper than just a conversation. There were friends who were also going through their own problems that I would come and say "this is what I'm going through" and they would offer some advice but it didn't really fix what was going on with me.

One day I was driving on Lekki-Epe and I said to God, "you know that if you take me now I've done my time" and I caught that thought and was like Jesus Christ Temisan. I was 26 at the time. I was like Jesus Christ, this is terrible. I've always loved life. I've always loved the idea of you know, being a star and everything. I'm like how have you gotten to the point where you're thinking about this? So I parked the car and I was like "God please. I don't know what this mood is and I'm really tired of being in this space. Help me fix this cuz you're the only one that I've always known."

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