By: EFE Updated 04 Feb 2022, 17: 59 pm EST
The former English player of Manchester United, Wayne Rooney, assured in an interview that was afraid of losing his life due to the strong problems of addiction to alcohol who suffered in the past.
The now coach of Derby County, in the Championship, stopped by the BBC Breakfast program to talk about the documentary about his life that is going to be released on Amazon, in which some of his problems are reviewed, such as drinking, violence and infidelity.
“Probably what scared me the most was death. I made a lot of mistakes, which could have been worse. Women, drunk driving, that I did this, or even my problems could have led me to kill someone or myself. I knew I needed help to save myself and my family,” Rooney said.
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“Does 15 years you could not walk into a locker room and recognize that you have a problem with alcohol and that you have a mental illness. I couldn’t do that”, he added.
Rooney also talks in the documentary about how violent he was as a young man, when he went to a town near Manchester to get into fights. “There were times when I came back with a black eye, another time my jaw was dislocated, I had 13 years”.
“I remember one day I was crossing the road with a bottle of cider in the hand. My coach at Everton back then stopped the car to let me through. The next day at training he picked me up and said, “ Listen, you have the most talent I’ve ever seen from someone your age. Don’t waste it .”
About his current situation with drinking, Rooney pointed out that he is fine now and that he controls it.
“I was never an alcoholic, it was more of a binge. If I had two days off, I spent them drinking. Then I tried to recover to go to work and train. There were times when I was not at my best level in the clubs I was in. Now I have talked to people and it has helped me. At that time I didn’t do it and I kept it and everything gets worse”, he assured.
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