James Packer says he contemplated suicide, while Robbie Williams would spend entire days in bed, as both separately battled their own mental health demons. The unlikely friends sat down to candidly discuss their experiences with mental health in Sunday night’s 7NEWS Spotlight episode, Profiles In Hope. Watch the full episode of 7NEWS Spotlight: Profiles In Hope on 7Plus Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Speaking from a luxury yacht in Cook’s Bay in French Polynesia, the pair acknowledged their friendship would appear unusual to “the outside world”.
But English singer and songwriter and ‘90s heartthrob Williams says there are “more similarities than there are differences” in their lives. Both have been candid with their mental health struggles throughout their professional lives, leading to former Liberal politician and Lifeline chairman John Brogden to approach Packer for his book. “I think, it’s known in the community that I’ve had mental health issues, so I’m not hiding from it.
I think if this interview can help one person, then that’s a good thing,” Packer tells Liam Bartlett. “(Deep depression) is different for every person. “For me, there are times that I’ve thought that I was going to go bankrupt, and I thought that, you know, that old saying ‘shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations’.
“I mean, (I was asking) ‘how am I going to have enough to look after mum?’” In his first face-to-face interview in mor.