How I Struggled With Depression During My Playing Days –Henry

Former Arsenal legend, Thierry Henry has confessed that he struggled with depression during his playing career.

Despite winning the 1998 World Cup with France and becoming Arsenal’s all-time leading goalscorer, Henry told Bartlett’s The Diary Of A CEO show that he struggled to find happiness and satisfaction in his accomplishments.

‘Throughout my career, I must have been in depression,’ he told Bartlett’s The Diary Of A CEO show.

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‘Did I know it? No. Did I do something about it? Obviously no. But I had adapted in a certain way.

‘I was lying for a very long time because society wasn’t ready to hear what I had to say.’

Henry says he spent his childhood trying to please his father and then his entire playing career trying to please others, comparing it to wearing a ‘cape’.

‘Everything came at once, especially during the Covid time,’ he said.