Kimani Mbugua had a flourishing career in his 20s at NTV and Citizen TV, but he threw it away and literally became a zombie.
Mbugua landed a job at Nation FM before before he completed his study at Moi University. He became an entertainment reporter and producer at Nation Media Group in 2016.
Mbugua became part of the Trend show while Larry Madowo was still in charge. His star only continued to shine brighter as he joined Royal Media services as a reporter on Citizen TV.
At Citizen TV, Mbugua was well known for his segment ‘Broken News’ where he asked random people on the street funny questions.
After two years at Citizen TV, Kimani Mbugua’s life took a turn for the worst. He opened up on how he fell from grace to grass in his podcast.
The former Citizen TV reporter recalled how things took a wrong turn to having his worst breakup ever, suffering from mental illnesses and losing everything he had built.
“It was a tough relationship, we were both at different spaces in our lives. I think we were at a point where we couldn’t be able to fulfil each other’s needs in the way that we wanted.
“I felt unfulfilled. I wasn’t getting the satisfaction I wanted from the relationship and therefore started cheating. My then-girlfriend found out, it was explosive. I ended up in a situation when I was trying to mend relationships with two people. This led me to the worst break-up ever,” he said on his eponymous Kimani Mbugua podcast.
The nasty breakup left him a broken man, he denounced his Christian faith and became an atheist. He even made attacked SDA church saying it was a cult. It was after this that he was fired from Citizen TV.
In December 2019, Kimani met another girl and proposed to her in February 2020. It was while in this relationship that he started smoking weed and got addicted.
“It was a hurried decision. She had a medical condition. I talked to her dad and planned to have her on my insurance officially. On one fine day in February, I drove home and I decided to smoke Marijuana…I do not know where the idea came from.”
The weed addiction became so severe that Mbugua developed other psychotic illnesses and was later admitted to Mathari Mental Hospital twice since 2020.
