"You do contemplate suicide," the winner of 28 Olympic medals told a hushed audience at the fourth annual conference of the Kennedy Forum, a behavioural health advocacy group. Phelps said he reached rock bottom following the 2012 Olympics in London where he won four gold medals and two silver. Phelps won his first gold medal in 2004 at the Athens Olympic Games. In 2008, after winning a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games, Phelps was photographed smoking from a bong. Phelps retired after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio as the most decorated Olympian of all-time, winning 28 Olympics medals.

Source: dna January 20, 2018 10:00 UTC