In the recently released episode of the Netflix docuseries Break Point 2, Nick Kyrgios shed light on his traumatic childhood. It would have been surely painful for the fans of Kyrgios to learn about his difficult past. But he later shared an Instagram story that showed it was not always the same for him. Kyrgios let his fans know that he knew how to be happy as well.

But his adult life too has been a rollercoaster in the same way. He had a hard year so far after knee surgery forced him to miss all the major tournaments so far in 2023. He is planning to make a comeback at Wimbledon but lost to China’s Wu Yibing at Stuttgart. Kyrgios lost his grandmother this year as well and yet he tries to stay calm and funny. He shared a similar photograph in his Instagram story.

Nick Kyrgios shares a painful childhood moment

Nick Kyrgios shared a photograph in his Instagram story where he looks funny, cute and of course fat. This comes in the background of the Netflix docuseries, where he shared how he was bullied as a child. He talked about how being brown, fat, and short was nightmarish for him. He said in the docuseries, “Being bullied at a young age because of being fat and short and brown. It scarred me, for sure.’’

In the docuseries, he also opened up on how he was able to make tennis popular all around the globe, but that he did not feel accepted. He talked about racism and how people mistake his confidence for arrogance. Because, according to him, people can’t differentiate it because they have no idea what the tennis star has been through. But childhood is not the only time he found the environment mentally challenging.

Not just as a child, Kyrgios felt pain as an adult too

After his loss to Rafael Nadal in the Wimbledon Championships 2019, he even thought about committing suicide. In the meantime, he abused drugs and alcohol while losing connection with family and friends. However, seeing his father cry made him change his ways and seek help.

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Later, he went to the psychiatric hospital to get mental health treatment. Since then, Kyrgios has encouraged people to speak up on mental health issues. He, along with the likes of Naomi Osaka and Bianca Andreescu, has become the pioneers of putting mental health problems faced by athletes out in the open for all to understand.

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