Kyrgios grateful to Andy Murray for helping him with self-harm

Nick Kyrgios expressed his gratitude to Andy Murray, acknowledging the Scottish tennis star’s support after he noticed signs of self-harm on the Australian player’s body.

In an interview with Piers Morgan Uncensored on TalkTV, Kyrgios shared, “Andy was always a big supporter of me. As soon as I came on the tour, he kind of saw a work in progress and took me under his wing. Then he realized later in my career that I don’t think I was coachable or I was on my own path, but he was always someone that was looking out for me.”

Reflecting on the critical moment, Kyrgios revealed, “He saw it (the self-harm), and he said, ‘What’s that on your arm?’ It was pretty bad at that stage. 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’t listen. Obviously, I’m very thankful. I thank him a lot.”

“He took me under his wing… I thank him a lot.”

Nick Kyrgios tells Piers Morgan how Andy Murray helped him with mental health and self harm struggles.

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— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) December 1, 2023

Kyrgios, who has been candid about his mental health struggles, previously opened up about his challenges in a Netflix documentary in June, where he disclosed spending time in a psychiatric hospital after his loss at Wimbledon in 2019. In February of the previous year, he wrote a lengthy Instagram post discussing his mental health struggles and expressing that he was in a much better place.