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<\/p>\nAdebayor, a former Tottenham and Crystal Palace star, said the pressure of trying to make it during his time at French side, Metz, saw him consider suicide at the age of 16.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Daily Mail, the 35-year-old said: \u201cI was 16. All I wanted to do was help my family out but they put huge pressure on me. I could not cope with it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen a family is poor, everyone is poor and there is huge solidarity. People will take a bullet for you. But when one makes it, it is like you owe everyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt Metz I was on maybe \u00a33,000 a month. My family asked for a house worth \u00a3500,000. The club were tired of me because of my behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember sitting on my bed one night and thinking \u2018What am I doing here? Nobody\u2019s happy with me, so what is the point of living?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a pharmacy below my apartment, I bought packet after packet of tablets.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey did not want to sell it to me but I said it was for a charity in Togo. I made the preparations, I drank all the water. I was ready to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I called my best friend at midnight. He told me not to rush, that I have things to live for.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018You have the potential to change Africa. I thought \u2018You are a dream-seller and I am not buying any dreams right now.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he took me out of the moment. I thought God must be keeping me for something.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Arsenal and Manchester City striker, Emmanuel Adebayor, has revealed that he came close to taking his own life as a teenager. Adebayor, a former Tottenham and Crystal Palace star, said the pressure of trying to make it during his time at French side, Metz, saw him consider suicide at the age of 16. Speaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}