{"id":298928,"date":"2023-12-01T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T13:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=298928"},"modified":"2023-12-01T13:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T13:24:38","slug":"kyrgios-thanks-murray-for-spotting-signs-of-self-harm-in-dark-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/tennis\/kyrgios-thanks-murray-for-spotting-signs-of-self-harm-in-dark-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgios thanks Murray for &apos;spotting signs of self harm&apos; in dark times"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Nick Kyrgios thanks Andy Murray for &#8216;spotting signs of self harm&#8217; and taking him under his wing, with Australian revealing he was &#8216;burning things&#8217; on his arm and contemplating suicide during two years of torment<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nick Kyrgios gave a heartfelt interview thanking Andy Murray for his support\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>Murray helped Kyrgios during the darkest time of his life when he was suicidal<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Kyrgios said he had an &#8216;addiciton of pain&#8217; and would wake up hating himself\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nick Kyrgios has publicly thanked Andy Murray after he supported the Australian tennis star during a dark period in which he contemplated suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a heart-wrenching interview, Kyrgios revealed that he endured two years of &#8216;complete harm&#8217;, waking up hating himself with an &#8216;addiction of pain&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The tennis star would burn things on his arm and cut himself &#8216;for fun&#8217; but Murray spotted the signs of self-harm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After seeing injuries on his arm, Murray alerted Kyrgios&#8217; manager, John Morris, and gave him advice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Andy was always a big supporter of me.\u00a0As soon as I came on the tour, he kind of saw a work in progress and took me under his wing,&#8217; Kyrgios told Piers Morgan Uncensored.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/11\/78466463-0-image-a-27_1701431478586.jpg\" height=\"404\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Nick Kyrgios has opened up about how Andy Murray helped him during a dark spell in his life<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/11\/78466405-0-image-a-28_1701431523359.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Australian tennis star said he had an &#8216;addiction of pain&#8217; and burned things on his arm\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/11\/78466599-0-image-a-29_1701431586274.jpg\" height=\"418\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Murray alerted John Morris (centre), Kyrgios&#8217; manager, and gave him advice after seeing arm injuries\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Then he realised later in my career that I don&#8217;t think I was coachable or I was on my own path, but he was always someone that was looking out for me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He saw it [the self-harm] and he said, &#8220;What&#8217;s that on your arm?&#8221; It was pretty bad at that stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Andy obviously was trying to give me advice on it. But I was just so stuck in my ways at that time that I didn&#8217;t listen. Obviously I&#8217;m very thankful. I thank him a lot.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios has previously opened up about his depression, saying he was having &#8216;suicidal thoughts&#8217; at the 2020 Australian Open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he described the conflict of &#8216;literally struggling to get out of bed&#8217; but then &#8216;play in front of millions&#8217; during that dark time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Netflix&#8217;s docuseries Break Point, he shared that he wore a compression sleeve to cover the scars on his arm in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;I think it was all a year-and-a-half to two years of just complete harm. It was pretty dark to be honest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I won tournaments on the professional tour, drinking every night, self-harming, burning things on my arm, cutting myself for fun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It became an addiction of pain. I hated myself. I hated waking up and being Nick Kyrgios.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/11\/78466737-0-image-a-37_1701431991662.jpg\" height=\"354\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios revealed the emotional details in an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/11\/78466613-0-image-a-30_1701431659145.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Since emerging from the darkest days of his life, Kyrgios has reached a Wimbledon final<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/11\/78466637-0-image-a-31_1701431714268.jpg\" height=\"392\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He has also won the Australian Open doubles competition with\u00a0Thanasi Kokkinakis<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was genuinely contemplating suicide. I lost at Wimbledon. I woke up and my dad was sitting on the bed, full-blown crying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That was the big wake-up call for me. I was like, &#8220;OK, I can&#8217;t keep doing this.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>After bouncing back from his darkest days, Kyrgios reached the 2022 Wimbledon final, where he lost to Novak Djokovic, and won the 2022 Australian Open doubles title with\u00a0Thanasi Kokkinakis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, he has been injured in 2023, playing just one match and falling out of the ATP rankings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His full interview with Piers Morgan will air on TalkTV at 8pm tonight.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/article-12814121\/Nick-Kyrgios-Andy-Murray-self-harm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kyrgios thanks Andy Murray for &#8216;spotting signs of self harm&#8217; and taking him under his wing, with Australian revealing he was &#8216;burning things&#8217; on his arm and contemplating suicide during two years of torment Nick Kyrgios gave a heartfelt interview thanking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kyrgios thanks Murray for &amp;apos;spotting signs of self harm&amp;apos; 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