“I don’t care what people say about me …”: Stuart Macgill admits to having anxiety during a first interview after a cocaine case | Cricket news
Former Australian cricket player Stuart Macgill, in his first interview since his conviction in a cocaine case, revealed his difficulties of anxiety, employment difficulties and concerns about the mental well-being of his children. The 54 -year -old leg spinner, who took 208 counters in 44 tests for Australia, was sentenced to facilitate a cocaine agreement and now purge a community sentence.Macgill participated in the organization of an exchange of $ 330,000 for a kilogram of cocaine, organizing a meeting under his restaurant on the north shore of Sydney between his partner’s brother and a dealer. Although he denied knowledge of the current agreement, he admitted to having regularly bought cocaine from the dealer for personal use.Go beyond the limit with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!“I don’t care what people say about me, but I care what was going on to children and I know it was very difficult for them,” said Macgill when he appeared on the Podcast Howie Games.“I am very lucky because depression has never been a great thing for me. I am anxious. I will not lie about it. I become very anxious. People talk about the situation half full of empty – well, I always said that I am neither, I am completely empty. And I say that it is because if today is the worst day of your life.
My children had to bear it. I can simply deactivate the media, but it is very difficult for children to deactivate social media.
Stuart Macgill
The former cricket player expressed a particular concern about the exposure of his children to social media during his legal problems. “My children had to bear it. I can simply deactivate the media, but it is very difficult for children to deactivate social media.”Macgill is currently faced with challenges to find a regular job, although he has obtained a job as a cricket coach. “I do my coaching, but other than that, I don’t really work much, which is pain because I have a fairly active spirit and try to close this is difficult work,” he said.He discussed his approach to manage difficult situations, drawing from his cricket experience. “If you touch the bottom, there is sun in advance,” said Macgill. “If something bothers me particularly, I just don’t think about it. I learned that by playing test cricket. If you have a bad day, do not buy paper. If you have a good day, buy each paper in the stand. “”The former test player also talked about changes in his social life after recent events. “Lots of television. But I don’t mind my own business, which is a good thing. I am sometimes alone, but I think it happened to a lot of people since I was comfortable. My network was a large part of whom I was. I knew a lot of people and I closed it since I needed my own environment a little more carefully.”
