Former England footballer and ex-Manchester United defender revealed that he turned to alcohol following the death of his wife Rebecca in March 2015, after experiencing guilt that she died and not him.
The
38-year-old single father of three told BBC that he started drinking in the
middle of the night to get through the grief of losing her to breast cancer.
'At the
beginning I was drinking a lot at night time. We have a lady lucky enough who
lives with us, she would go to bed and I'd come back down in the middle of the
night and probably drink a lot for the first three or four months. But I would
get up and do the school run and stuff.'
Ferdinand
said he can now sympathise with people who go to 'dark places' following trauma
and grief. He insisted that it was the people who he surrounded himself with
that gave him the drive to succeed for his children.
'That's
why a network of people around you is so important. And I was fortunate to have
that and also having my kids as inspiration to make sure I get up and do things
and try and make things work. Some people aren't afforded that, some people
haven't got that, and that's when I started to become a bit more sympathetic
when people do go to places that are dark places.'
He added: 'I used to look at people or read stories and think, how can you be so selfish and commit suicide or attempt to commit suicide or whatever. But I can actually sympathise now because I understand that you get to places where you think, if I didn't have that network of people or my kids who I use as an inspiration to be able to get up and think straight, I can understand that.'
***Ferdi is my all time best soccer defender**....and yes, I'm a Hugh soccer fan...Lol
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