Adam Walker, former Scotland rugby prop, committed suicide at age 31 – Corriere.it

The physical strength was still there, the inner strength was long gone. The world of rugby in shock by the death of only 31 years of Adam Walker, Scotland prop who took part in the 2013 World Cup. According to reports from the British press, Walker committed suicide as he suffered from anxiety and depression. All those who are part of the Scotland Rugby League they are saddened to learn the news of Adam’s death, Scotland Rugby League spokesman Ollie Cruickshank said. He has played with pride every time he played for Scotland, he was a member of our team at the 2013 World Cup. Our thoughts are with Adam’s family and friends right now.

Walker, who had previously admitted making use of cocaine, he had repeatedly stressed that he had made a great effort to stop using drugs. I had used cocaine a couple of times before I was discovered he declared in 2019. I was in a downward spiral. There were a lot of things going on in my life. I haven’t talked to anyone about it and tried to fix them myself, but that only made things worse. Walker had then received the help of Sporting Chance, (a British organization that aims to give psychological support to professional sportsmen, especially those suffering from addictions) after being suspended by the federation. I’m honest, I’m glad I got suspended. If it hadn’t happened I would have gotten worse and instead this stop made me understand what I had. I realized how much rugby was an important part of my life. Work from 9 to 5 made me feel lucky to be a rugby player he added. Words of hope that had convinced many that the worst was over for him. Instead the inner wounds had never healed, reopened by terrible memories like the arrest suffered in 2015 for an alleged sexual assault against a minor, an accusation from which he was then fully cleared because it was later discovered that the accusation had no evidence against him. A judicial process that had deeply embittered him because, according to him, the police had never apologized. Then the ascent, the new stop for the use of cocaine and the conviction of having made it having stopped using drugs. Which evidently was only the desperate attempt to cure an ailment of living that had never gone away and that in the end pushed him to end it all.