Serious confessions of the English star Rooney .. "I was on the verge of death"!

English soccer star Wayne Rooney has revealed that he was close to death from excessive drinking before retiring from playing, citing severe mental health disorders and an aggressive childhood on the street marred by fights and violence, as he put it.

The former Manchester United player and current coach of Derby County, England, said that when he was a professional player, he was addicted to drinking alcohol, which put his life and the lives of other people at risk, he reached the point of death!

And Sky News Arabia quoted Rooney's statements to the BBC, as saying that he was driving the car in a state of complete drunkenness, despite the realization that he might harm himself and others. I was aware of my need for help so that I could maintain my family.

10 or 15 years ago I couldn't tell myself I had alcohol, I had mental health problems... I couldn't do that."

Rooney also touched on stations from his childhood, and the quarrels and violence in which he was, and talked about more than one occasion in which he was injured due to a fight in the street, between swelling around the eye and a broken jaw.

Rooney is one of the most prominent players in the history of English football and Manchester United, who played in his shirt for 13 years, knowing that he has 120 international matches, during which he scored 53 goals.

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