Ex-Inter star opens up about alcohol problem and club cover-up
ON HIS DEPRESSION: “I only know how much I have suffered, the death of my father left me a huge emptiness, I ended up feeling very lonely. After his death, it got worse and worse, because I isolated myself. I was sad and depressed and then I started drinking.”
ON ALCOHOL: “I felt happy just drinking, I used to do it every night, I drank everything that came in front of me: wine, whiskey, vodka, beer, lots of beer, I did not stop drinking and I had to leave Inter.”
INTER MILAN: “I did not know how to hide it, I got drunk in the morning at training sessions, I always showed up, even though I was completely drunk and the medical staff took me to sleep in the infirmary. Inter told the press I had muscle pains.”
ON CHOICES: “I then realized that the problem was the people around me, friends who did nothing but bring me to parties, with women and alcohol, without thinking about anything.”
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