He’s a rugby league immortal, but Wally Lewis reveals for the first time how his epilepsy led to a shocking battle with depression.
It’s hard to picture Wally Lewis being terrified. Stranger still to think of him as vulnerable. But in his most intimate interview ever, King Wally reveals to Woman’s Day that while caught in the grip of a crippling depression, his legendary spirit crushed by epilepsy, he seriously contemplated suicide.
Now, following brain surgery in February last year, the sheer relief of having Wally back to “almost normal” is clearly etched on the face of his wife Jacqui and their three children.
Don’t miss our exclusive interview with the football legend, in Woman’s Day (on-sale February 18, 2008)
Wally donated his fee for the story to the Austin Hospital and organisations supporting epilepsy.
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