Veteran Yoruba actor, Dele Odule, has opened up about a difficult period in his life.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview shared on social media, the actor, known for his roles in films like Ti Oluwa Ni Ile, revealed that he once priced his own coffin in a moment of despair.<\/p>\n
He opened up about reaching an all-time low while living in Abeokuta, Ogun State.<\/p>\n
He recounted feeling as though his life was in ruins and believing he couldn\u2019t rise above the challenges he was facing.<\/p>\n
I had priced my own casket before when everything and my life were in shambles in Abeokuta,<\/em>\u201d Odule said. \u201cI didn\u2019t get myself anymore; I didn\u2019t believe I could break through.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Odule further shared that his close colleague, actor Olaiya Igwe, was with him during that particularly dark moment. \u201cOlaiya Igwe knows about it; I went there with him, and he started crying like a baby,\u201d<\/em> he said, highlighting the emotional toll of his struggles.<\/p>\n Born in 1959 in Ile-Ife, but hailing from Oru Ijebu in Ogun State, Dele Odule has enjoyed a distinguished career in Nigerian cinema. Since the late 1980s, Odule has graced both stage and screen, becoming a respected figure in the industry. He has also served as President of the Theatre Arts and Movie Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN).<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran Yoruba actor, Dele Odule, has opened up about a difficult period in his life. In a recent interview shared on social media, the actor, known for his roles in films like Ti Oluwa Ni Ile, revealed that he once priced his own coffin in a moment of despair. He opened up about reaching an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":242809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2c63920c-d55b-4672-9753-88848714b728.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}