“I was drinking, abusing drugs, I hated the kind of person I was,” he said in the upcoming Break Point episode, which covers his run to the 2022 Wimbledon final.
“I lost at Wimbledon. I woke up and my dad was sitting on the bed, full-blown crying. That was the big wake-up call for me.
“I was like, OK, I can’t keep doing this. I ended up in a psych ward in London to figure out my problems.”
“I was genuinely contemplating if I wanted to commit suicide,” Kyrgios added.
“That pressure, having that ‘all eyes on you’ expectation, I couldn’t deal with it. I hated the kind of person I was.
“I lost my relationship with my family, pushed all my close friends away.
“You could tell I was hurting. My whole arm was covered in scars. That’s why I actually got my arm sleeve, to cover it all.”
Kyrgios has just begun his comeback following knee surgery in January.
He lost the first match of his return in the opening round of the Stuttgart Open on Tuesday.
Kyrgios, a two-time semifinalist in Stuttgart, was playing for the first time since October in Tokyo.
