Conor Benn has revealed he felt suicidal after his optimistic medication exams brought on his combat with Chris Eubank Jr to be cancelled in October.
Former two-weight world champion Benn mentioned in an interview on TalkTV present Piers Morgan Uncensored that “I didn’t think I’d see another day”.
Benn’s much-hyped showdown with Eubank was referred to as off simply three days earlier than it was as a consequence of happen after the previous admitted to failing medication exams in July and September.
Benn, who has since been cleared of an intentional doping offence by the World Boxing Council, was requested by Morgan if he had felt suicidal and he replied: “Yeah, I’d say so, yeah and it upsets me now because I don’t know how I got so bad. I got in a really bad way.”
The 26-year-old mentioned: “I struggled. There was probably about two months where… I was in a really bad way.”
When requested if he had spoken to his father, former world champion Nigel Benn, about his emotional state, Benn added: “I did, but my dad was in a bad way as well.
“Over this, yeah. I was in a bad way. I was sobbing most nights. I didn’t want to go to sleep because I knew I had to wake up to… You’ve got to remember this was a nightmare for me. How has this happened? How have I got into this situation?”
Last month, the WBC dominated a “highly elevated consumption of eggs” was thought-about a “reasonable explanation” for Benn’s antagonistic discovering.
Benn additionally spoke concerning the abuse he has obtained on social media for the reason that Eubank combat was referred to as off, including: “There’s been too many. ‘Kill yourself’, racist comments to my son, to my family.
“Nothing in person, it’s cowardly. I don’t think it’s social media that bothers me, it was more so the shame I felt leaving the house, although I’d done nothing wrong.
“I was having night terrors, panic attacks. I don’t throw these words (around). Mental health, I was really struggling. I was in a really bad way and I was coping terribly with it. I was coping really bad with it.”
