💬 Gilly Flaherty: 'Gambling is a dangerous addiction, people need to talk to prevent suicides' ⬇️ With the Qatar World Cup increasing temptation for gamblers, the Liverpool defender talks to AasmaDay about her mental health struggles
With World Cup fixtures now coming thick and fast, Gilly has joined forces with former Arsenal and England star turned pundit Paul Merson, and YouTuber Ellis Platten – founder of the AwayDays football channel – to feature in a new film about gambling during major sporting events.
Gilly – who has nine England caps – believes the World Cup will entice first-time gamblers, who then might fall prey to a gambling addiction – particularly during theThe 31-year-old is open about her personal struggles with mental health and has supported the FA’scampaign to break the stigma and encourage people to speak up when they are struggling.
“With suicides linked to gambling, I don’t want anyone to feel that’s the only way out. You hear so many stories of people who take their own life and then people ask, ‘Why did they do it?’ and it comes out they were wrapped around debt and had so many money problems. “I just got into a really bad place where I felt isolated and didn’t speak to anybody and then I tried to take my own life through an overdose.”
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