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Quite an open interview with him at the link
"I had never even thought about the other side of being a football player. I wasn't prepared for that part of life," he said, speaking before the launch of an Amazon Prime documentary about his life.
"It took a long time for me to get used to that and figure out how to deal with it. It was like being thrown in somewhere where you are just not comfortable. That was tough for me.
"In my early years at Manchester United, probably until we had my first son, Kai, I locked myself away really. I never went out," Rooney told the two newspapers.
"There were times you'd get a couple of days off from football and I would actually lock myself away and just drink, to try to take all that away from my mind.
"People might know that I liked a drink at times or went out but there was a lot more to it than just that. It was what was going on in my head.
Quite an open interview with him at the link
"I had never even thought about the other side of being a football player. I wasn't prepared for that part of life," he said, speaking before the launch of an Amazon Prime documentary about his life.
"It took a long time for me to get used to that and figure out how to deal with it. It was like being thrown in somewhere where you are just not comfortable. That was tough for me.
"In my early years at Manchester United, probably until we had my first son, Kai, I locked myself away really. I never went out," Rooney told the two newspapers.
"There were times you'd get a couple of days off from football and I would actually lock myself away and just drink, to try to take all that away from my mind.
"People might know that I liked a drink at times or went out but there was a lot more to it than just that. It was what was going on in my head.
