Thierry Henry (EXCLUSIVE): "I Cried Every Single Day", Dealing With Depression, My Childhood Trauma & Fighting For My Dad's Love!
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I was lying for a very long time because society wasn't ready to hear what I had to say. But I will be honest with you. I wasn't Goal breaker, history maker, last goals record goal scorer! Throughout my career, I must have been in depression. Did I do something about it? No. But to understand the person that I became you have to understand what happened early. When I was young, I didn't see a lot of love, affection, hugging. My dad, the first time he took me in his arms, said This baby will be an amazing football player. From that point, I was programmed to succeed my dad to control of my body.
And it was the One day we played a game I was thirteen years old. We won the game 6 nil, I scored six goals. But it was always what I didn't do. You miss that control, you miss that cross, you miss that this, you miss that that. And it can make you or break you. I decided it was going to make me. I wasn't scared of failure. You're gonna fail. That's what shapes you. But I was more scared not to please people. Even when you were playing Arsenal and you were winning golden boots and invincibles, you were still trying to please your dad. Yeah. But were you happy? Oof. So long you think what you're doing is to please others. Football money. We have a roof, but then I was about to leave again. My girlfriend, the kids, everybody starts to cry.
And for the first time I realized they were crying for me. Not the football player, not the accolade, and I felt human. If I was watching you, what would I have seen? Almost every day. But it was the young cherry.
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