Grant Denyer broke down in tears as he bravely spoke about his struggles with his mental health in a candid new interview.
The TV star, 46, spoke about how he contemplated suicide after breaking his back and becoming addicted to painkillers in one of the darkest periods of his life.
Talking to Hit Network Carrie Bickmore and Tommy Little On Thursday, the former Sunrise meteorologist was overcome with emotion as he recalled his struggles.
Grant, who shares daughters Sailor, 10, Scout, six, and Sunday, two, with wife Chezzi, revealed his family was his only “purpose” during the difficult time.
His voice shaking with emotion, the Deal Or No Deal host bravely shared: ‘If I didn’t have a… uh… child at the time, I really didn’t see much point in moving forward.
Grant Denyer broke down in tears as he bravely spoke about his struggles with his mental health in a candid new interview.
‘I didn’t have much fight left or desire to move forward… so it was for her. I didn’t want (my daughter) to suffer the pain of not having a father around.’
Grant confessed that he struggled with “low self-esteem” and didn’t like himself at the time, but he loved his daughter enough to get through that dark period.
‘Yes… I could inflict pain on myself. I didn’t look very favorably on myself. I wasn’t very nice. I had very low self-esteem. He had no self-love. But he loved her enough to not want to hurt her,” he shared.
“If you just put one foot in front of the other and go little by little, just one step at a time, you can get there.”
The TV star, 46, spoke about how he contemplated suicide after breaking his back and becoming addicted to painkillers in one of the darkest periods of his life.
Grant, who shares daughters Sailor, 10, Scout, six, and Sunday, two, with wife Chezzi, revealed his family was his only “purpose” during the difficult time.
“Having trouble with painkillers after a broken back was the darkest period of my life,” he said during the Carrie and Tommy Show.
“I was winning races in Supercars, presenting things like Australia’s Got Talent, Sunrise, and then bang, they take the handbrake off and you have to sit still for four months.”
‘You enter your darkest worst nightmares everywhere every time you close your eyes. So just say that his worst fear is his wife leaving him or a home invasion, the moment he closes his eyes, he will go straight to those worst scenarios, every night.
‘And when you wake up, you can’t tell the difference between reality and your dreams. You think everything has happened.
In 2014, Grant checked into a wellness center in Thailand with his wife of 14 years, Chezzi (both pictured) amid his struggles.
Grant often speaks publicly about his mental health, telling how he became addicted to painkillers after breaking his back in a freak monster truck accident in 2008.
The accident left Grant with a vertebra broken into 11 pieces and doctors feared he would never walk again.
In 2014, Grant attended a wellness center in Thailand that specializes in treating post-traumatic stress disorder and burnout.
“Going to Thailand was a challenge, but it was the smartest thing (Chezzi and I) ever did,” he previously shared.
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