‘I went on a wild bender’ – Ronnie O’Sullivan laments having to ‘change the way I felt’ on snooker circuit

Ronnie O’Sullivan has opened up in regards to the regrets he nonetheless holds from being “depending on altering the way in which I felt” throughout his early years on the snooker tour.

O’Sullivan, chatting with his good buddy and certainly one of his former rivals, Alan McManus, mentioned in-depth the problems he encountered for a lot of years after his dad went to jail. The dialog was a part of the upcoming two-hour present on discovery+ and Eurosport, Seventh Heaven.

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“If I wasn’t robust sufficient to deal with that now, I would not do it,” O’Sullivan advised McManus within the function interview.

“If I used to be going via what I used to be going via once I gained my first world title, there is no such thing as a manner in 1,000,000 years I might put myself via it.

“However the final 20 years I’ve discovered a manner of dealing with it and being on prime of it, and never stressing about it. Do not get me unsuitable, there are occasions when, particularly this 12 months’s [World Championship] I went to locations I did not actually need to enterprise into once more, however I knew that it was only a short-term section.

“I used to be in a position to discover it and put the brakes on, however yeah, I’m loads higher now at simply taking it for what it’s. Win, lose or draw, it does not actually matter, however simply conserving it in its proper place.

“Lots of people say, ‘in the event you had your time once more, would you modify it?’ and sure, I might. I might change numerous issues in my life. I am not a kind of ‘that was what it was and it did me good’ – no, a variety of the issues I’ve accomplished have made long-term injury, I feel.

“There are some issues which can be out of your management, like my dad going away [to prison], I want that had by no means occurred. That may have in all probability stopped a variety of the opposite issues going unsuitable in my life. I am not blaming my dad for that, I simply misplaced a variety of that assist mechanism.

“I had by no means drunk, smoked or any of that stuff after which I went on a wild bender, in the event you like, for six years. I feel I might change these years as a result of I grew to become so depending on altering the way in which I felt.

“I by no means felt snug in my very own pores and skin, however up till that time, I had at all times felt snug in my very own pores and skin. I feel that’s the place a variety of my issues arose. That then grew to become a crutch as a result of if I wasn’t feeling good, the very first thing I might go to was the drink or one thing to alter the way in which I felt.

“I feel after getting crossed that line, it’s exhausting to return to the person who you had been. I might a lot somewhat return to the child that was 16, 17, or 18 that was harmless, and by no means must do any of that, however I’ve solely bought myself guilty. I might undoubtedly change that, 1,000,000 per cent, however issues change.”

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