{"id":409593,"date":"2020-01-05T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=409593"},"modified":"2020-01-05T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T23:31:15","slug":"tom-shields-opens-up-about-what-led-him-to-near-suicide-experience-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tom-shields-opens-up-about-what-led-him-to-near-suicide-experience-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Shields Opens Up About What Led Him to Near-Suicide Experience in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the outside looking in, Tom Shields\u00a0<\/strong>seemingly had everything going for him. He had swam in the Olympic final in 2016, won two national team titles at Cal, broke American records, won NCAA titles, and enjoyed a happy marriage to his wife Gianna<\/strong>. But towards the end of 2018, Shields admitted he tried to take his own life.<\/p>\n

But he didn’t go public<\/a> with this until December 2019, nearly a year after the lowest point of his life.<\/p>\n

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A post shared by Tom Shields (@beefytshields)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n