KATIE Price’s boyfriend Kris Boyson has admitted he got so depressed he charged onto a busy road and “into an oncoming car”.
The 32-year-old, who recently admitted to suffering such bad anxiety it once forced him out of a job, told New! magazine he was plagued by feelings of “ominous doom”.
He said: “I was in a nightmare. The only thing I could do to get out of the nightmare – and I’ve only ever told my parents and a couple of close friends this – was run into the road into an oncoming car.
“That was rock bottom. I thought it would end the pain. Thankfully my cousin intervened to stop me.
“I wasn’t thinking about suicide, I just didn’t want to feel how I felt any more. I wanted the pain to stop.”
Kris claimed that famous girlfriend Katie, 40, also has struggles but feels she can’t “show any weakness”.
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He said: “She’s a prime example of someone who suffers in silence. Don’t think she’s as hard as she appears to be.
“People think she’s tough as nails and she plays up to that because it’s her coping mechanism. If she shows any weakness she’ll get eaten alive.”
Kris, who said depression struck him when he was 21, decided to speak up about his ongoing battle in the wake of the death of Love Island star Mike Thalassitis aged 26.
He told the magazine: “I didn’t know Mike, but his death is a wake-up call. People need to speak out about mental health and realise that it’s OK not to be OK.
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“I’ve been through so much and I was embarrassed to let anyone know I was struggling so badly.
“But I’ve found my coping mechanisms and I hope by speaking so publicly it will help others, too.”
Super-fit Kris added that after the running-into-the-road incident, his parents took him to a psychiatrist who put him on antidepressants.
However, he says it was exercise that was his “lifeline” and that personal training helped him get his life back on track.
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