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    Rio Ferdinand Breaks Down As He Reveals He Turned To Alcohol

    Former England footballer Rio Ferdinand has opened up about his wife's death, saying the guilt he felt over her death made him turn to alcohol.
    Rio was taking part in a BBC documentary, Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum And Dad, which is being aired on Tuesday 28th March at 9pm on BBC One, when he broke down when talking about how he 'self-medicated' with alcohol to cope with the grief of losing his wife to breast cancer in 2015.

    He is now a single parent to the couple's three children, Lorenz, 10, eight-year-old Tate and Tia, five.

    http://www.theladbible.com/more/uk-r...death-20170321


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    I read about this the other day, but never being into football at all, i just skipped over it.
    Yes it's a sad time when you lose a partner so young and then it's all down to you to try to bring the family up.
    Just like divorce really to me, as it was down to me to bring my daughter and son up and just at the time my daughter was starting her periods, you soon learn very quick,


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    Must be devastating.. Not sure I could handle it to be honest..
    "Sorry kids..but your Mum`s dead".


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    Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
    Must be devastating.. Not sure I could handle it to be honest..
    "Sorry kids..but your Mum`s dead".
    It's life and death, you either sink or swim.


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    Fortunately he's got a few quid to help him along....


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    Quote Originally Posted by Longweekend View Post
    Fortunately he's got a few quid to help him along....
    That does help loads, think of the poor sods who don't have that sort of cash and still have the bills to pay.


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    Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
    Must be devastating..
    Yes, it most certainly IS ... I know only too well what it feels like, having lost my previous wife (the mother of my children) 10 months after she'd been diagnosed with Non~Hodgkins' Lymphoma.

    Oh we'd been told it was incurable when all treatment options failed. Nonetheless ... ... I'd been totally unprepared for how rapidly the disease advanced towards the end.

    Luckily [for me] I was 47 at the time, and our two kids had grown-up by then - unlike Rio Ferdinand's three.


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    Watch 'Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad'.

    There follows, an excerpt from a programme being screened on BBC1 at 9 o'clock tomorrow night ... in which the former England captain discusses his grief - "I haven't moved on" - he candidly admits.

    www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39379559

    Statistically, ... it's estimated some 75 men under the age of 50 are widowed in the UK every day.

    Without meaning to appear morbid ... I'd say this is a programme not to be missed.


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    It's a tuff life out there, no matter who you are.
    Some can go on no matter what may happen, others sink.


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    My kids mum died 15 years ago,i didn't turn to drink or suchlike,i just had to get on with life,thats how it goes.



    Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
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