Nick Kyrgios, the 2022 Australian Open doubles champion, admitted to having suicidal thoughts during an interview with Jay Shetty on his “On Purpose” podcast.
The tennis star said he contemplated his own life in 2019 and explained the complexity between his on-court success and the struggle he faced in his personal life. “There was a tournament in Mexico, Acapulco, where I was thinking about, I was having suicidal thoughts and, you know, I was just on the balcony of my hotel and I was genuinely thinking about it,” Kyrgios told Shetty.
Kyrgios explained what it was like to go through that scary moment.
“And the worst thing was the media, I was having decent results during that time. And the media was like, ‘Okay, is this a new Nick Kyrgios?’ And I was like, this is the darkest period of my life,” he said.
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