Kell Brook reveals he hit the bottle to help cope with defeats by Gennady Golovkin and Errol Spence
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- 19 Feb 2021
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Kell Brook has admitted he hit "rock bottom" after suffering devastating defeats by Gennady Golovkin and Errol Spence .
Not only did the Sheffield star lose his previously unblemished record but his eye socket was fractured during both fights.
Brook returns to the ring next month against Siarhei Rabchanka as he bids to win a world title at light-middleweight.
And he has revealed his battle with his demons forced him to seek solace in alcohol.
"I was really that low. I didn't want to go on. People don’t know that. I hit rock bottom around Christmas," he told The Guardian .
"I remember sitting on my own, thinking: 'No one loves me. What have I done to myself? What have I done to the people that do love me?’ I was at home and my missus and kids were out. I thought, ‘I’ve let people down who really love me.'
"It was very bad. I was thinking of retiring. Things weren’t great at home. I was a lost soul – the lowest I’ve ever been.
"I was going out, drinking a lot. When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time. But it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was just a vicious circle – drinking, not caring about myself – and it gave me a bad low."
