Nick Kyrgios has revealed he was admitted to a psychiatric ward after Wimbledon in 2019 after contemplating ending his life, saying he “hated the kind of person I was”.
The Australian has previously been open about his struggles with depression and self-harm, but in a new episode of the Netflix documentary,“I was genuinely contemplating if I wanted to commit suicide,” Kyrgios said. “I 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. I was like, “OK, I can’t keep doing this. I ended up in a psych ward in London to figure out my problems.
“I was drinking, abusing drugs, lost my relationship with my family, pushed all my close friends away,” he said. “You could tell I was hurting. My whole arm was covered in scars — that’s why I actually got my arm sleeve. To cover it all. That pressure, having that all-eyes-on-you expectation, I couldn’t deal with it. I hated the kind of person I was.”
Kyrgios’ stop-start and often controversial career has since flourished. In 2022, he rode the highs of his best season yet, winning the Australian Open doubles title alongside Thanasi Kokkinakis and later that year reached a maiden grand slam final to finish Wimbledon as runner-up to Novak Djokovic.
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