Codeigniter escape_str撤消到纯HTML

I just try to use Codeigniter escape_str function it's working good, but when i try to get data and show in front side then some extra code showing. any way for replace those all extra symbol.

This is the function

$content = $this->db->escape_str($content);

I'm trying to input below data from HTML texarea

Hello all how are you?

I'm from cox's bazar. see you again.

but when i try to echo it then i'm getting like this

Hello all how are you?

I\'m from cox\'s bazar. see you again.

It should return same as my input. please help me for solve this issue. Thanks