
{"id":471517,"date":"2023-12-01T08:10:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=471517"},"modified":"2023-12-01T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T11:09:20","slug":"kyrgios-grateful-to-andy-murray-for-helping-him-with-self-harm","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kyrgios-grateful-to-andy-murray-for-helping-him-with-self-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgios grateful to Andy Murray for helping him with self-harm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kyrgios expressed his gratitude to Andy Murray, acknowledging the Scottish tennis star&#8217;s support after he noticed signs of self-harm on the Australian player&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Piers Morgan Uncensored on TalkTV, Kyrgios shared, &#8220;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&#8217;t think I was coachable or I was on my own path, but he was always someone that was looking out for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the critical moment, Kyrgios revealed, &#8220;He saw it (the self-harm), and he said, &#8216;What&#8217;s that on your arm?&#8217; 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&#8217;t listen. Obviously, I&#8217;m very thankful. I thank him a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;He took me under his wing&#8230; I thank him a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nick Kyrgios tells Piers Morgan how Andy Murray helped him with mental health and self harm struggles.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview on tonight&#8217;s Uncensored at 8pm (UK). <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickKyrgios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NickKyrgios<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@andy_murray<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piersmorgan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@piersmorgan<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#PMU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VYpAdQBVKL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VYpAdQBVKL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiersUncensored\/status\/1730536477900050882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kyrgios expressed his gratitude to Andy Murray, acknowledging the Scottish tennis star&#8217;s support after he noticed signs of self-harm on the Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":471522,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17769,17216],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[18110,19434],"acf":{"announce":"The Scottish player was the first to notice the signs of struggle ","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471525,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471517\/revisions\/471525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471517"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=471517"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=471517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}