With the advent of technology, many people have suffered from leaking intimate photos, one of them was the footballer Leigh Nicol, Scotsman now playing in Crystal palace, but He thought of committing suicide when the world came upon him.
This happened in 2019 when his phone was broken and his pictures were published. The content was from a few years ago, when she was 18 and her world fell apart when she found out through a direct message on Instagram and even tried to find equipment, because they did not want to associate it with their brand.
“The fact that she was a football player made the images spread quickly without me being able to control it, “he told Sky Sports.
“I have nieces and nephews who are now reaching this age, who are proud of me and who want to argue with me on Google, but it is impossible to do it without my name being stuck in the ground,” he added.
Nicol decided to move away from sports after the great emotional blow it represented for her, since he suffers from anxiety and suffered a deep depression, from which he healed with therapy, although he failed to fully recover from the harassment he suffered.
“I am in a vicious circle. It was never a quiet moment. I still suffer from anxiety and I have moments when I can’t get out of bed. Now I can understand why people commit suicide in connection with such things, because I don’t know how I managed to get over it. It took a change of perspective and to surround myself with the right people “, he commented.
Leigh at that moment he closed his social networks for all the painful and obscene messages he received and reopened recently, but the problem persists: “I’m still getting feedback. At least one a night. I’ve come to normalize it and that hurts. It’s frustrating to be recognized for just that. ”
After the hell he lived through, he found an opportunity in Crystal palace to rebuild, a team that didn’t care about his past and In the dressing room he has a picture of the tree where he thought of suicide, instead of loved ones like their colleagues.
“I smile when I look at him. It doesn’t make me sad. He has no negative memories for me. I am very grateful that I managed to get through that period in my life. He gently reminds me that anything is possible and puts things in perspective for me. Even on game day when there are a lot of nerves, I just look at the tree and it reminds me that I overcame worseHe confessed.