TG Omori Reveals His Body Rejected His Brother’s Kidney After 7-Hour Surgery

TG Omori reveals his brother’s kidney donation failed after 7 hours of surgery, forcing him back to dialysis and a second donor search.

Imagine finding out your body just rejected the one thing that was supposed to save your life. That’s basically what happened to TG Omori, and he’s finally talking about it.

The popular music video director sat down on the Afropolitan podcast and gave fans a raw look into what he’s been through health-wise, and honestly, it’s heavier than most people realised.

It all started with a diagnosis back in Nigeria. Doctors put him on medication, and for a while, that seemed to work. Then 2023 happened. He was in New York when things took a turn, bad enough that he ended up in a hospital there. Doctors told him to head back home and sort things out properly.

Once he saw a nephrologist in Nigeria, the news wasn’t great. His kidney function kept dropping, and a transplant became the only real option left.

Here’s where it gets tough. Finding a donor took about nine months. Nine months of waiting while your health keeps slipping is no joke. Eventually, his own brother stepped up and offered to donate.

They went into surgery, seven hours of it, and came out hopeful. But Omori’s body didn’t accept the new kidney. It had to be removed, and he was sent right back to dialysis to heal before trying again with a different donor.

What really seems to sit heavy with him is what it cost his brother. “My brother only has one kidney now,” he said, and you can tell that’s the part that haunts him most, even though his brother can live perfectly fine with just one.

While all this was happening quietly, the outside world wasn’t kind. People assumed he’d fallen off, that nobody wanted to work with him anymore. Meanwhile, he was fighting for his life and, by his own admission, had already made peace with the possibility of not surviving.

The hardest part wasn’t even physical, though. Being creative but unable to work broke something in him. He described feeling like an injured player stuck on the bench, watching the game move on without him.

Omori also used the moment to clear up something people always get wrong: directors aren’t swimming in the same money as the artistes they shoot for. A lot of the time, the budget barely leaves the director better off, because keeping the vision alive costs more than people realise.

Through all of it, one thing is clear. This man has been fighting a battle way bigger than any music video.