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Australian Olympic gold medalist diver Matthew Mitcham<\/strong> discussed his battle with a \u201ccrippling\u201d drug and alcohol addiction in an interview with the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old Australian won a gold medal in the 10-meter platform diving at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Not only was he the first Australian man to win a diving gold since 1924, he was the first openly gay man to win an Olympic medal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those accomplishments came with a price, as he detailed to the BBC this week: A daily drug and alcohol habit that led to thoughts of suicide during his post-Olympics comedown. Those \u201cOlympic blues\u201d fed into all kinds of submerged feelings about what he calls a difficult childhood and years of shame about his identity and hiding his sexuality.<\/p>\n

From the interview:<\/p>\n

“I felt stuck not being able to be authentically me. I didn’t want to admit I’d deceived people and lied for so long, which left me feeling alienated. Diving became this darkness which permeated the rest of my life. I really hated it, but I knew it was my one chance to be special, so I kept going, effectively on autopilot.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mitcham, who will be inducted to the International Swimming Hall of Fame this year<\/a>, quit diving for a year at age 18. He did not plan to come out publicly, revealing a live-in boyfriend by accident in a story that he later assented to having published.<\/p>\n

The gold medal did not banish his demons; indeed, it made the 20-year-old \u201cfeel even worse because I ha no right to feel that way when I had the world at my feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitcham retired from diving in 2016<\/a>. He\u2019s been clean and sober for five years and recently celebrated one year of marriage to his partner, Britian native Luke Rutherford<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Read Matthew Mitcham’s full interview at the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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