Tyson Fury Tells Wild Story About Helping Random Stranger Who Showed Up On His Doorstep On The Brink Of Suicide

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This week, former heavyweight champion of the world (shit, imaging being able to say that about yourself) Tyson Fury posted to social media about a profound encounter he had with a despondent fan.

Fury claims to have a “random stranger” show up on his doorstep claiming he was just about to commit suicide but he needed to speak to Fury, who’s been through the ringer with his mental health (more on that in a bit), before he followed through with the act.

The Gypsy King revealed he talked off the ledge before taking him on a three-mile run and “it seems to have worked.”

He then warned those going through similar torture that it “gets better” and with the assistance of medical advice, ones old self is achievable.

Fury then shared a message from someone called ‘James’ whose struggle with debt pushed him to the brink of suicide by way of overdose in his work van, before hearing Fury open up about the depths of his own personal suffering on “Talk Sport.”

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Fury added: “Thanks James, I am so humbled reading this message, God bless, and I will continue the work on smashing the stigma.”

Fury previously admitted to mental health struggles and drug addiction during his hiatus from boxing in 2016 and 2017.

He appeared on the Joe Rogan Podcast in October 2018 and opened up about just how low he plummeted during that time.

“I tried to commit suicide. I’ll tell you what happened.

“I was waking up and I didn’t want to be alive, I was making everybody’s life a misery, everybody who was close to me I was pushing away.

“Nobody could talk any sense into me at all and I’d go very, very, very low at times, very low. And I’d start thinking all these crazy thoughts.

“I bought a brand new Ferrari convertible in the summer of 2016, and I was in it and I was on this strip of the highway where I am.

“At the bottom of about a five-mile strip there’s a massive bridge that crosses the motorway.

“I got the car up to about 190mph and I was headed towards that bridge.

“I didn’t care what no-one was thinking, I didn’t care about hurting my family, friends, anybody. I didn’t care about nothing, I just wanted to die so bad, I gave up on life.

“And just as I was heading towards that bridge at 190mph in this Ferrari – it would have crushed like a Coke can if I’d have hit it – I heard a voice saying: ‘No, don’t do this Tyson…

“‘Think about your kids, think about your family and your little boys and girls growing up with no father and everyone saying your dad was a weak man, he left you and he took the easy way out because he couldn’t do anything about it.’

“Before I turned into the bridge I pulled onto the motorway and I was shaking. I pulled over and I was all nervous and I didn’t know what to do and I was so afraid.

“And I thought that I’ll never ever try or think about taking my life ever again.” [Transcribed by TalkSport]

*Steps on soap box* Being able to speak out about shit you’re not proud of and take personal responsibility is being less and less accepted in a cultural so quick to #cancel. Fury’s outward honesty with himself resulted in the possible saving of a life and that should be reason enough to stunt this shame-and-blame game we imprison ourselves with. Butttt, it won’t.

 

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