Content warning: This article contains discussion around suicide and mental health.
Newcastle United striker Callum Wilson has said football was his "saviour", having contemplated taking his own life as a child.
The England international, 33, spoke at length to the High Performance Podcast, external about his early life, including growing up as the eldest of six siblings in a single-parent household, spells in foster care, receiving help from foodbanks and his mother experiencing domestic abuse.
Wilson, who has recently sought therapy to help with the trauma of his childhood experiences, said he had had "suicidal moments" at the age of about 12.