Gay rugby player says he thought of suicide before ‘coming out’

RECOMMENDED: Hirst was married before he separated from his wife who had two children for him but shockingly revealed he was gay in August 2015.

Keegan Hirst says he thought of taking his own life before coming out as gay (Daily Mirror) 

England rugby player Keegan Hirst has admitted that he thought about taking his own life before coming out as gay last year.

Hirst was married before he separated from his wife who had two children for him but shockingly revealed he was gay in August 2015.

Keegan Hirst came out as a gay in August 2015 (Daily mirror)

His coming out was heralded by the sporting community, but the 27-year revealed that he never though he would receive such support before coming and considered taking his own life.

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"I had a lot of things going on in my head. Was I gay, wasn't I gay? Was it a phase?,” he told ITV.

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1:37 PM - 9 Feb 2016

"There were one or two occasions when I did think about taking my own life. I even got as far as thinking about how I'd do it, where I'd do it.

“But then you started to think about who'd find you, what effect would it have on your family and friends and things like that. That always kind of brought me back. I got my head round it."