Nick Kyrgios admits he contemplated suicide and entered psychiatric ward after 2019 Wimbledon loss
msn.comAustralian Nick Kyrgios has revealed he was admitted to a psychiatric ward after contemplating suicide following a Wimbledon defeat to Rafael Nadal in 2019.
The often-controversial world number 25 said the second-round, four-set defeat to the Spaniard was the lowest point of his career. "I was genuinely contemplating if I wanted to commit suicide," Kyrgios, who wore a white sleeve on his right arm to hide tell-tale self-harm scars, told Netflix documentary Break Point. "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. "You could tell I was hurting.
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