Fury, 30, suffered with serious depression after being crowned world heavyweight champion three years ago - but he has now come out the other side and got his life back on track
TYSON FURY has revealed how he came within seconds of killing himself, admitting he "wanted to die so bad" after he was crowned heavyweight world champion.
Against the odds Fury outpointed long-reigning champion Wladimir Klitschko to become the unified champion back in November 2015.
But he struggled to deal with the pressures of being a top level sportsman, and after achieving his lifetime goal, hit the bottle in the weeks and months after.
, Fury opened up on his suicide attempt back in the summer of 2016.
He said: "I was waking up and didn't want to be alive I was making everyone's life a misery; no-one could talk any sense into me at all.
"I would get very, very low at times and start thinking these crazy thoughts. I bought a brand new Ferrari convertible in the summer of 2016.
"I was in it on the highway and at the bottom, I got the car up to 190mph and heading towards a bridge.
"I didn't care about nothing, I just wanted to die so bad.
"I gave up on life but as I was heading to the bridge I heard a voice saying, 'no don't do this Tyson; think about your kids, your family, your sons and daughter growing up without a dad.'
"Before I turned into the bridge I pulled on to the motorway, I didn't know what to do, I was shaking, I was so afraid.
"I said I'd never think about taking my own life again."
Fury, who has revealed he drank 18 pints of lager a day in the midst of his battle with depression, says he was out all the time partying - but it just made him plunge further into a darker place.
He added: "I hit the drink, I hit the drugs and I was out all night with the women of the night.
"I just wanted to die and I wanted to have fun doing it. But when the drink wears off it just leaves you with a bad hangover and even worse depression."
He continued: "When you have a goal in mind from being a child - and you achieve it... I was lost, I didn't know what to do.
"When I was an amateur I used to watch Wladimir Klitschko on TV and he was my target, when I beat him, that was my Everest.
"I tried retiring, but it wasn't enough. I tried golfing, clay pigeon shooting, 4x4-ing, strip clubs but I had an emptiness inside.
"I had never taken a drug until I was 27; cocaine was the usual one, cocaine and alcohol. I look back on it now and I think, 'would i change that?'
"But I wouldn't, I wouldn't change a thing because I knew it had to happen."
