Nick Kygrios: Australian contemplated suicide after Wimbledon loss

Nick Kygrios mislaid to Rafael Nadal successful the 2nd circular of Wimbledon successful 2019 earlier going connected to scope the last for the archetypal clip successful 2022

Nick Kyrgios says helium "genuinely contemplated" termination and spent clip successful a psychiatric infirmary successful London aft losing astatine Wimbledon successful 2019.

Kyrgios said helium wore a achromatic limb sleeve during the lucifer to screen up grounds of self-harm.

"I was drinking, abusing drugs, I hated the benignant of idiosyncratic I was," helium said the documentary Break Point, which covers his tally to the 2022 final.

"I mislaid astatine Wimbledon. I woke up and my dada was sitting connected the bed, full-blown crying. That was the large wake-up telephone for me.

"I was like, OK, I can't support doing this. I ended up successful a psych ward successful London to fig retired my problems."

In February past twelvemonth Kyrgios posted connected Instagram astir his intelligence health, saying helium had had "suicidal thoughts" and "struggled to get retired of bed" successful 2019, pointing retired marks connected his limb successful a photograph from the Australian Open.

"I was genuinely contemplating if I wanted to perpetrate suicide," helium says successful the documentary, owed to beryllium released connected Netflix aboriginal this month.

"That pressure, having that 'all eyes connected you' expectation, I couldn't woody with it. I hated the benignant of idiosyncratic I was.

"I mislaid my narration with my family, pushed each my adjacent friends away.

"You could archer I was hurting. My full limb was covered successful scars. That's wherefore I really got my limb sleeve, to screen it all."

The station connected Instagram said helium was "proud to accidental I've wholly turned myself around" and that helium doesn't "take 1 infinitesimal for granted".

After reaching the last of Wimbledon past year, wherever helium was beaten by 23-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic, Kyrgios sustained a genu wounded which resulted successful him having country to repair a tiny teardrop successful his near lateral meniscus successful January.

He returned to the tribunal for the archetypal clip connected Tuesday astatine the Stuttgart Open successful Germany, wherever helium mislaid to China's Wu Yibing successful the opening round.

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