“I was that bad,” Andy Gray reveals that he thought about taking his own life after Sky Sports fired him from his Premier League-Pundit role
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Andy Gray claims that after being fired from Sky Sports, he thought about killing himself. The 66-year-old, who had almost 20 years of experience as the voice of Sky Sports Premier League coverage, and Richard Keys were fired due to their disparaging remarks regarding female referee Sian Massey-Ellis. Gray and Keys addressed Massey’s appointment after the tight offside ruling she made during Liverpool vs. Wolves in 2011.
The two, who now work for beIN Sports in Qatar, had their first UK television interview since the controversy during a sit-down interview with TalkTV host Piers Morgan more than ten years later. Gray discussed his difficulties with mental health in the conversation that followed his termination from Sky Sports. He acknowledged that he had hit a dark point where he nearly killed himself in his garden.
Gray said: “I was close to one day going down the garden, where I used to have a pond, with a little bottle and a few pills and got that down. I was that bad. One day. I was that bad.”
Why Andy Gray was fired from Sky Sports
Richard Keys and Andy Gray acknowledged they were sorry for the remarks that caused Sky Sports to fire them. The pair openly discussed their well-publicized departure from Sky Sports with host Piers Morgan, explaining how the incident had left them in a “dark place.” with Piers Morgan.
The two pundits made “offensive and sexist” remarks off-air about female assistant referee Sian Massey-Ellis and several other female figures in the football industry; they were fired from their lucrative positions as part of the broadcaster’s Premier League coverage in January 2011.
Keys and Gray were unable to retract what they had said after their conversation was overheard by microphones and captured in an audio recording that was shared on social media. The disgraced duo was then fired from Sky and relocated to Qatar to work for state television beIN Sports as the head of their Premier League coverage, a position they have held ever since setting up shop in the Middle East.
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