I Tried to Commit Suicide Twice: Journalist Dennis Okari Opens Up on Messy Divorce with KTN News Anchor Betty Kyallo

NTV investigative journalist Dennis Okari has for the first time opened up on what he went through after his ugly divorce with former wife, Betty Kyallo.

Okari separated with the KTN news anchor in October 2015, just six months after their much-publicized wedding.

In an interview with Truth FM on Thursday, the reporter said he suffered depression and contemplated suicide on two separate occasions as a result of the mocking he received after the divorce.

"I know people don't know this, but I have tried to take my life twice. The first time I wanted to crash my car on a huge rock on my way from work. Miraculously, as I drove from work on the material night, I just could not trace the boulder, it had always been there, but I couldn't trace it," the journalist told Truth FM  in candid interview.

"The second time, I had planned to take an overdose of piriton tablets, about 12 of them, and sleep never to wake up. But as I came from work late in the night, I couldn't figure where to get a chemist that late in the night. And somehow it escaped my mind that I could easily google it out. Likewise, I aborted the suicide mission," he recalled.

The journalist said he overcame depression after a spiritual encounter that has since transformed his life. He says he now spends most of his time mentoring Christians.

Asked for a comment on claims by Betty that he was to blame for the broken marriage, Okari noted he did not wish to "defend himself or tarnish someone's name in public".

"Maybe I will speak about it in future when God allows me," he said.

In a past interview, Betty said their divorce was fuelled by Okari's move to join a religious group that engaged in "practices she could not fathom".