{"id":143145,"date":"2023-11-15T04:52:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T04:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=143145"},"modified":"2023-11-15T04:52:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T04:52:21","slug":"ronnie-osullivan-reveals-mental-health-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/sport\/ronnie-osullivan-reveals-mental-health-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie O&apos;Sullivan reveals &apos;mental health&apos; struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan reveals struggles with his &#8216;mental health&#8217; as world number one confirms his withdrawal from the Champion of Champions event after admitting to feeling &#8216;mentally drained&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan confirmed his withdrawal from the Champion of Champions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He claims he wants to take time off to look after his &#8216;mental health&#8217; and &#8216;body&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>It comes shortly after his documentary shed light on his recent struggles<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan has confirmed his withdrawal from the Champion of Champions event in a bid to look after his &#8216;mental health&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It comes after his recent documentary shed light on how O&#8217;Sullivan has battled addiction to drink and drugs, as well as depression, early on in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, O&#8217;Sullivan wrote: &#8216;Hi guys, just wanted to let you know I\u2019m unfortunately withdrawing from the Champions of champions event tomorrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Mentally I feel a bit drained and stressed and I want to look after my mental health and my body. I\u2019m sorry to all the fans but I\u2019ll be back stronger&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Sullivan has opted to withdraw from the 13th edition of the Champion of Champions &#8211; where the winner is awarded\u00a0\u00a3150,000 from a \u00a3440,000 prize fund.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/10\/77778147-12747173-image-a-11_1699958668913.jpg\" height=\"195\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/10\/77777949-12747173-image-a-1_1699958253327.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan has confirmed his withdrawal from the Champion of Champions event in a bid to look after his &#8216;mental health&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Just last month,\u00a0<span>O&#8217;Sullivan opened up on his battles with addiction and fighting his inner demons in a new access-all-areas documentary made by <\/span>David Beckham<span>&#8216;s film company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the trailer, he is seen saying: &#8216;My addictions are good in many ways because it drives me on &#8211; but it needs to be managed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;People could see that I was imploding. I wasn&#8217;t very good at having this stuff locked inside me. I never want to go to those dark places, but sometimes you have to.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>His wife Laila says: &#8216;There is just so much self-criticism involved and that is just soul-destroying.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Rocket&#8217; allowed the cameras to follow him everywhere during his bid to equal Stephen Hendry&#8217;s record of seven modern era Snooker World Championship titles.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Sullivan also made headlines last month after\u00a0launching a blistering attack on UK snooker events with the seven-time world champion comparing them to a car boot sale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Sullivan, during the English Open, expressed his frustration at the quality of venues used for UK competitions, as he competed in his first ranking event of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old suggested post-match that he will only play a handful of domestic events this season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/10\/76112363-12747173-O_Sullivan_has_claimed_he_will_focus_on_playing_events_in_Asia_w-a-12_1699959549881.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Sullivan has recently detailed his struggles with addiction throughout his documentary\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am not saying this is a terrible tournament. But the venues, people walking up and down in the crowd,&#8217;\u00a0O&#8217;Sullivan said, as per the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I\u2019d like to see someone get hold of a good promoter, get hold of the tournaments and make them a bit better. Nothing has really changed in 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When we had tobacco sponsors, they were amazing, they really went out of their way to make all the players feel special.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Don\u2019t just ask me, go and ask [Stephen] Hendry, go and ask some of the players who played then with tobacco sponsors. Just don\u2019t take my word for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Every event was like a special event. Now, it\u2019s just, I don\u2019t know what it is. It\u2019s like a car boot sale. I have always said, it\u2019s like a car boot sale.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/othersports\/article-12747173\/Ronnie-OSullivan-confirms-withdraw-Champion-Champions-event-look-mental-health-world-number-one-admits-feeling-mentally-drained.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan reveals struggles with his &#8216;mental health&#8217; as world number one confirms his withdrawal from the Champion of Champions event after admitting to feeling &#8216;mentally drained&#8217; Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan confirmed his withdrawal from the Champion of Champions He claims he wants to take time off to look after his &#8216;mental health&#8217; and &#8216;body&#8217;\u00a0 It comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ronnie O&amp;apos;Sullivan reveals &amp;apos;mental health&amp;apos; 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