Red Sox star Jarren Duran reveals suicide attempt in new Netflix series
Years before Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran played his way to the All-Star Game last year, the mounting pressure of the 2022 season nearly ended him.
Years before Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran played his way to the All-Star Game last year, the mounting pressure of the 2022 season nearly ended him.
Duran revealed he attempted to die by suicide in the new Netflix docuseries “The Clubhouse: A Year With the Red Sox,” which will be released Tuesday. In the fourth episode, "Still Alive," Duran opened up about his yearslong battle with depression, the attempt to take his own life with a rifle and the season that brought him to a breaking point.
Duran was inundated with negativity during the 2022 season. He was failing to live up to his own expectations, hearing the echoes of home fans’ disappointment in him and listening to announcers calling out his shortcomings.
“I would think every day, ‘I can’t f---ing do this,’” he says. “I couldn’t deal with telling myself how much I sucked every f---ing day. Like, I was already hearing it from fans and, like, what they say to me. It’s like, I haven’t told myself 10 times worse than that in the mirror.
“It was a pretty low time for me. Like, I didn’t even want to be here anymore," he continues.
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