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The Sun
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Man Utd title winner didn't want to leave house after being mocked for his looks and got apology from Gary Lineker
LUKE CHADWICK has revealed he was left battling depression and anxiety after being mocked for his appearance. The former Manchester United midfielder was on the books at Old Trafford between 1997 and 2004. 3 3 3 Chadwick came through the United youth system, winning the Premier League in 2001. He would go to play for West Ham, Stoke and MK Dons in a near two-decade career. Ahead of releasing his autobiography Not Just a Pretty Face, the 44-year-old has opened up about abuse he suffered as a young pro. Chadwick admits cruel comments about his appearance made him want to hide away in his house in the early stages of his career. He told BBC Sport: "As a 19, 20-year-old it should have been the best time of my life but for a period of time. "I didn't want to go to the shops, I didn't want to go out with my friends. "I would just want to stay at home because I was so scared that people would talk about the way that I looked. "I wasn't able to speak about it to anyone – not even my family, my friends – it was something that I kept so deep inside. "I probably felt helpless, in a way, because I just didn't know how to deal with it. And I just wanted it to stop, really." Chadwick's anxiety improved after moving away from Old Trafford to join the Hammers in 2004. Ex-Man Utd player Luke Chadwick claims his 'stomach twisted' whenever he appeared on TV as he battled depression He continued: "It wasn't until I came away from Manchester United, and the spotlight's not on you as much. "I was able to rebuild my confidence and live a really happy life. "Football was always the place I felt free - the place where I didn't think about anything else." Chadwick also received an apology from Gary Lineker for comments made on the BBC show They Think It's All Over. Lineker was a team captain on the panel show, which regularly poked fun at Chadwick over his looks. The England legend wrote on X in 2020: "I was part of that show, therefore, I too would like to apologise to Luke Chadwick for any hurt caused." Depression... the signs to look for and what to do Depression can manifest in many ways. We all feel a bit low from time to time. But depression is persistent and can make a person feel helpless and unable to see a way through. They may also struggle to about daily life. Mind says these are some common signs of depression that you may experience: How you might feel Down, upset or tearful Restless, agitated or irritable Guilty, worthless and down on yourself Empty and numb Isolated and unable to relate to other people Finding no pleasure in life or things you usually enjoy Angry or frustrated over minor things A sense of unreality No self-confidence or self-esteem Hopeless and despairing Feeling tired all the time How you might act Avoiding social events and activities you usually enjoy Self-harming or suicidal behaviour Difficulty speaking, thinking clearly or making decisions Losing interest in sex Difficulty remembering or concentrating on things Using more tobacco, alcohol or other drugs than usual Difficulty sleeping, or sleeping too much No appetite and losing weight, or eating more than usual and gaining weight Physical aches and pains with no obvious physical cause Moving very slowly, or being restless and agitated If you feel this way, visit your GP who can help you. If you, or anyone you know, needs help dealing with mental health problems, the following organisations provide support. The following are free to contact and confidential: Samaritans, 116 123, jo@ CALM (the leading movement against suicide in men) 0800 585 858 Papyrus (prevention of young suicide) 0800 068 41 41 Shout (for support of all mental health) text 85258 to start a conversation Mind, provide information about types of mental health problems and where to get help for them. Email info@ or call the infoline on 0300 123 3393 (UK landline calls are charged at local rates, and charges from mobile phones will vary). YoungMinds run a free, confidential parents helpline on 0808 802 5544 for parents or carers worried about how a child or young person is feeling or behaving. The website has a chat option too. Rethink Mental Illness, gives advice and information service offers practical advice on a wide range of topics such as The Mental Health Act, social care, welfare benefits, and carers rights. Use its website or call 0300 5000 927 (calls are charged at your local rate).
News.com.au
10 hours ago
- General
- News.com.au
‘Falling apart': Huge issue 1 in 6 Australians are battling
Many women expect that bringing a child into the world will be one of the happiest times of their entire lives. While that might be true for some, the pivotal life experience can illicit a whole range of unexpected emotions that go against the norm of what society says new parents are meant to feel. For mum Jaimi, while she was over the moon to become a mother, she never anticipated the psychological rollercoaster she was about to embark on. The 31-year-old from Sydney explained that for as long as she could remember, she had felt like she was simply an 'anxious person' and did not realise it could be a mental health issue. Australia is in the grips of a mental health crisis, and people are struggling to know who to turn to, especially our younger generations. Can We Talk? is a News Corp awareness campaign, in partnership with Medibank, equipping Aussies with the skills needs to have the most important conversation of their life. Diagnosed with anxiety and depression at 16, she went on medication for a while which helped, but was re-diagnosed when she 22 and living in London. Despite these low points, Jaimi never felt like it was taking over her entire life. That is, until she fell pregnant. What was once something that came in waves and she felt she could manage soon transformed into a debilitating illness that impacted every facet of her life. 'While pregnant with my son, I was hospitalised twice due to anxiety around my pregnancy.' the small business owner told 'I was incredibly scared that he wasn't okay and kept having intrusive thoughts that I had miscarried. 'It was traumatising and incredibly scary. I had panic attacks and was so overwhelmed with fear that I couldn't shake the feelings I had or try to calm myself. 'It certainly didn't help that we were in lockdown at the time.' After giving birth to her son in 2022, the feelings only intensified, and she was diagnosed with postnatal depression and anxiety. 'I was incredibly overwhelmed and worried about my son,' she recalled. 'Checking on him constantly to see if he was breathing, completely consumed by how much he was eating and constantly stressed to the point of tears that he wasn't eating enough. 'I was really struggling and having a baby made my anxiety so much worse than it had ever been. 'I could no longer ignore it or pass it off as fears of a new mother. It was debilitating and affecting my relationship with my husband and son. 'It was prolonged and didn't go away or get better. My son's eating was a really big part of my anxiety as I was incredibly stressed about him putting on weight and being healthy. 'I had a lot of issues with breastfeeding and this was a massive trigger for me and definitely contributed to my anxiety. 'I was an emotional wreck and so consumed with guilt and worry that I was just falling apart.' The experience of being a new mum paired with crippling anxiety and postnatal depression was one of the most difficult times of Jaimi's life. She explained that it felt like a constant 'heavy weight' that she just could not shake. 'For me, it just felt like a heavy weight, weighing me down constantly,' she revealed. 'I couldn't get rid of this really heavy feeling. It is so debilitating and you feel like no one else around you understands. 'I couldn't explain my fears or feelings properly which only made things more difficult. I didn't know what I was feeling as this was a totally overwhelming situation that I hadn't ever faced. 'I just felt like everything was dark and heavy, even when people were there, the world around me felt isolating and dark.' Thankfully, Jaimi's GP caught on that something wasn't quite right when she went in for her newborn's immunisations and requested a follow up appointment. It was then she was officially diagnosed with postnatal depression and anxiety. Thanks to her doctor picking up on the signs, she was able to get the help she needed. 'I was put on medication which was a tremendous help,' she said. 'I've been medicated ever since and it is an incredible help and relief. I later saw a psychiatrist and was diagnosed with ADHD, which often has depression and anxiety attached as symptoms. 'This is something I didn't know and wish more people understood.' The mum is currently pregnant with her second child and thankfully, it has been smooth-sailing. 'The medication helped tremendously and I feel like I have my symptoms under control, even now while I'm pregnant,' she said. 'Pregnancy was a huge source of anxiety for me and this pregnancy has been so much better in terms of my anxiety. 'I feel a lot lighter, I'm more calm and I am feeling excited about it this time around.' Jaimi is sharing her story to help raise awareness for PND and anxiety and hopes that it can help others feel less alone in their struggles. 'People think of mental health as a 'buzzword' rather than a debilitating disease that affects far more people than it seems,' she added. 'Anxiety can be completely overwhelming and consuming and can seriously affect a person and their loved ones lives. 'I want people to understand that they're not alone. There is support and you can find a community of people who will help you, even when others won't. 'You shouldn't live in a constant state of anxiety, worry and isolation.'
Sky News
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sky News
Mountainhead: Succession writer Jesse Armstrong's new film takes aim at tech billionaires
Succession writer Jesse Armstrong says he hopes his new film about toxic tech billionaires can be a receptacle for anyone who is "feeling wonky about the world". Now making his film directorial debut with Mountainhead, starring Steve Carell and Jason Schwartzman, Armstrong has shifted his focus from cut-throat media moguls to a group of billionaire friends meeting up to compare bank balances against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis they appear to have stoked. Speaking to Sky News about the project, he said: "For a little while I poured some of my anxieties and feelings into it… and I hope it can be a receptacle for other people if they're feeling wonky about the world, maybe this can be somewhere they put some of their anxieties for a while." Few television writers achieve widespread recognition beyond their work, but Armstrong - the man behind Succession, one of the most critically acclaimed TV shows of the past decade - has become a household name and is today one of the world's hottest properties in high-end drama. "If there was more self-reflection and self-knowledge, there probably wouldn't be such amenable targets for comedy and satire," he admits. Long before he gifted viewers with the likes of manipulative Logan Roy and sycophantically ambitious Tom Wambsgans, back in the beginning, there was selfish slacker Jez and the perennially insecure Mark on his breakthrough hit Peep Show. "I love comedy, you know, it's my way in," he explains. "I think I like it because… the mixture that you get of tragedy and absurdity strikes me as a sort of a true portrayal of the world… and I just like jokes, you know, that's probably the basic reason." After putting his pen down on the finale of Succession, walking away with 19 Emmys and nine Golden Globes, attention was always going to be drawn to what Armstrong did next. "I had a couple of other things that I thought I would write first and this kind of snuck up on me as an area of interest," Armstrong says. "After I'd listened to a bunch of tech podcasts and Ted talks, I sort of needed somewhere to put the tone of voice that was increasingly in my head." Tapping into the unease surrounding big tech, he wrote, shot and edited Mountainhead in less than six months. Capturing the audience mood Explaining why he worked so fast, he said he "wanted to be in the same sort of mood as my audience, if possible". While he insists there aren't "any direct map-ons" to the billionaire tech moguls, which frequently make headlines in real life, he joked he's "happy… to play a game of 'where did I steal what from who?'" with viewers. "You know… Elon Musk… I think at least people would see some Mark Zuckerberg and, I don't know, some Sam Altman, there is a bunch of those people in all the [film's] different characters… and we've stolen liberally from the world in terms of the stories we've given them." Steve Carell is tasked with delivering some of the film's most memorable lines as the satire explores the dynamic between those holding the power and those pulling the strings. Lack of self-knowledge 'good for comedy' "People who lack a certain degree of self-knowledge are good for comedy….and if there was more self-reflection and self-knowledge, there probably wouldn't be such amenable targets for comedy and satire. "You know, living in a gated community and travelling by private jet certainly doesn't help you to understand what life is like for most people." Armstrong's gift for using humour to savagely dramatic ends is arguably what makes him one of the most sought-after writers working today. Behind his ability to craft some of the sharpest and scathing dialogue on our screens, he views what he does as more than getting a laugh. "I do believe in the sort of nobility of the idea, that this is a good way to portray the world because this is how it feels a lot of the time."
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Iris Law wears pale-blue co-ord as she grabs coffee and donuts in LA
Iris Law selected a pale blue co-ord as she stepped out in Los Angeles, on Thursday. The model, 24, grabbed a coffee at Alfred Coffee on Melrose Place with a friend before picking up some doughnuts. The daughter of actors Jude Law and Sadie Frost teamed her look with silver ballet pumps and quirky gray socks. Refreshments: The model visited Alfred Coffee on Melrose Place The actress previously opened up about her personal sense of style in the Vogue Espana piece. She revealed she flits between different phases - sometimes feeling more feminine, while in others she adopts an androgynous look. Iris stated: 'I don't dress for anyone, I just try to feel good and be comfortable.' 'I let myself be carried away by how I am in an intuitive way, even if it's not what is understood as chic or cool,' she said. 'I have gone through many phases: more feminine, more androgynous... I like to change; every day is different.' Iris also made a candid confession about having struggled with anxiety previously, as she revealed her coping mechanisms. She said: 'I love lifting weights; I think it's great for maintaining hormonal balance and it also helps me sleep better. 'In general, I've noticed a big change in controlling my anxiety, also since I started running.'
BreakingNews.ie
a day ago
- Entertainment
- BreakingNews.ie
Conor Maynard speaks on paternity drama and ‘really difficult' past year
Singer Conor Maynard has spoken about his paternity drama with The Traitors star Charlotte Chilton and said the last year has been 'really difficult'. Chilton publicly claimed last year that the R U Crazy singer is the father to her daughter Penelope, who was born in October 2024. Advertisement In March this year, the music artist, 32, said in a social media post that he had taken a paternity test and that the results 'confirm that I am not Penelope's father'. Maynard, who had maintained his silence prior to the social media post in March, told ITV's This Morning: 'One of the main reasons I felt like right now was the right time to speak about it was because … the last year has been really difficult, and mental health is something that I've struggled with for a big portion of my life. 'Obviously, this most recent year has been definitely up there, in terms of my experience and my battle with it, and I've never really shied away from that in the sense, you know, my fans who follow me online and on social media, I've spoken about it openly before. 'Today I've released a brand new song, which goes quite deeply into my battle with anxiety and obviously there have been a lot of things that have happened, and there's a lot of things that have contributed to why things have been so difficult.' Advertisement He continued: 'What was probably one of the most difficult aspects of the entire situation was it was so kind of shocking to me how it seemed like there was such a failure from the public, and also sometimes even from the press, to require proof before condemning me for something that, obviously, ultimately ended up being false and being not true.' He added: 'It was just very difficult to kind of understand that this was all happening without anyone really knowing the true story, or anyone really knowing whether or not it was completely true. 'I think what was difficult for me was, instinctively, you want to defend yourself, you want to be able to speak your side, but I didn't know what was true and what was not.' Asked if he been told about about Chilton's pregnancy before the media storm, he said: 'I was aware of the situation before, however I had no idea that it was going to go to the press. Advertisement 'I didn't know any of that was going to happen. In my mind, it was like, well, obviously the natural proceeding would be to get a test to basically make sure that everything is 100% certain, and then obviously we deal with it accordingly. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Conor Maynard (@conormaynard) 'Obviously, that's not the way it went. And I think it was difficult to remain silent.' He added: 'I instantly was painted as a deadbeat dad and … all of my comments across all of my social media was very much all about that. 'As I said, instinctively you want to defend yourself … but I also felt like it wasn't right to speak on it until I knew the truth myself, and I didn't want to force that, I obviously researched paternity tests and that kind of thing, and I know that it can be considered dangerous for a child that isn't born yet, and also when they're very early in life. Advertisement 'I was kind of just waiting and allowing that decision to come from the other side.' Maynard confirmed the two had initially met at a party with her other Traitors contestants. Chilton told the It Can't Just Be Me podcast in October 2024 that they met at Raffles hotel in London for a Traitors after-party organised by winner Harry Clark, whose girlfriend, Anna, is the sister of Maynard. Chilton has been approached for comment. Advertisement
