{"id":76409,"date":"2023-06-15T14:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/15\/nick-kyrgios-reveals-he-contemplated-suicide\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T14:56:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:56:35","slug":"nick-kyrgios-reveals-he-contemplated-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/15\/nick-kyrgios-reveals-he-contemplated-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios reveals he contemplated suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nick Kyrgios says he \u201cgenuinely contemplated\u201d suicide and spent time in a psychiatric hospital in London after losing at Wimbledon in 2019.<\/p>\n

The Australian, 28, was knocked out by Rafael Nadal in the second round.<\/p>\n

Kyrgios said he later got a sleeve tattoo on his right arm to cover up evidence of self-harm.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was drinking, abusing drugs, I hated the kind of person I was,\u201d he said in the documentary Break Point, which covers his run to the 2022 final.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost at Wimbledon. I woke up and my dad was sitting on the bed, full-blown crying. That was the big wake-up call for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, OK, I can\u2019t keep doing this. I ended up in a psych ward in London to figure out my problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

In February last year Kyrgios posted on Instagram about his mental health, saying he had had \u201csuicidal thoughts\u201d and \u201cstruggled to get out of bed\u201d in 2019, pointing out self-harm marks on his arm in a photo from the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was genuinely contemplating if I wanted to commit suicide,\u201d he says in the documentary, due to be released on Netflix later this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat pressure, having that \u2018all eyes on you\u2019 expectation, I couldn\u2019t deal with it. I hated the kind of person I was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost my relationship with my family, pushed all my close friends away.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could tell I was hurting. My whole arm was covered in scars. That\u2019s why I actually got my arm sleeve, to cover it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post on Instagram said he was \u201cproud to say I\u2019ve completely turned myself around\u201d and that he doesn\u2019t \u201ctake one moment for granted\u201d.<\/p>\n

After reaching the final of Wimbledon last year, where he was beaten by 23-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic, Kyrgios sustained a knee injury which resulted in him having surgery to repair a small tear in his left lateral meniscus in January.<\/p>\n

He returned to the court for the first time on Tuesday at the Stuttgart Open in Germany, where he lost to China\u2019s Wu Yibing in the opening round.<\/p>\n

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