After making some comments earlier this week centered around depression, Tommy Dreamer took to SiriusXM’s Busted Open radio to discuss the comments. During the discussion, Dreamer clarified his comments on depression, noting that his goal was to convey that just because someone may look fine, they might not be.
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“The main reason why I did this, because in two weeks, two people killed themselves. And one, Ashley Massaro, I was supposed to meet her the next day, and the other person was Lionheart, and I didn’t know Lionheart. And I’ll read to you his last tweet,” he said, before delving into Lionheart’s final tweet that he shared. Dreamer went on to discuss how he spoke to wrestlers that were close to Lionheart, and how the lack of discussion around the issue of depression is affecting everyone.
“I’m sure if he would have just told the world, ‘Hey, I’m thinking of killing myself,’ the world would have told him how bad of an idea that was. It’s okay to have a sad day, it’s okay, but you have to fight through it. And I then talked about a moment in my head where life wasn’t good for me, and I’m not going to go into it, because I don’t hate Paul Heyman. And it was just, you know, when you’re sitting up late at night and thinking all these horrible thoughts, you get lost in your own head. And it was brought out to me by someone, that there’s a big difference between being depressed and someone who fights depression. And people who fight depression need help, and if you’re depressed, it’s much different, and I was depressed. I don’t fight or have depression, but I wanted to tell everyone hey, even the guy you see on TV, even for me, I was in the best shape of my life, I’d go to the gym every day, but I was numb. There were some days I didn’t wake up, because this thing that I loved, ECW, was now gone. The person who I thought was my friend betrayed me. My parents, I had lost so much money, all this stuff, and I was just walking around like a robot. And I don’t want people to ever feel like that.”
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