Football
Toye Faleye
After
losing his wife to breast cancer, Former England player, Rio Ferdinand, has resorted
to heavy drinking as a coping strategy to dealing with depression, loneliness
and emotional trauma confronting him, admitting that his wife’s death has
turned him to alcohol.
He
also revealed that he gained a new understanding for suicidal people as he
struggled to raise the three children, Lorenze, 10-year-old,Tate,
eight-year-old and Tia, five-year-old, all born to him by Rebecca, alone.
Speaking
about the loss for the first time, Rio says: “You realise playing football was
a… walk in park compared to telling your kids their mum isn’t coming back. I’ve
never had to do something so hard, so emotionally draining and testing. ..
Ferdinand says the challenges of having to cope with the situation is enormous,
saying the challenges made him understand why some people get so low as to
think of committing suicide. “It’s a lonely dark place,” he says.
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