US president, Joe Biden has admitted he considered killing himself after losing his wife and daughter in a car crash.
In an interview with radio journalist Howard Stern, the US President opened up about his grief after his first wife Nelia and their one-year-old daughter Naomi died in a car crash in Delaware, US on December 18, 1972.
Biden told Stern: ‘You don’t have to be crazy to commit suicide if you’ve been to the top of the mountain and you think you’ll never be there again.
‘For a brief moment I thought maybe I’ll just go to Delaware Memorial Bridge and just jump, but I had two kids.’
The President also said that after his wife’s death, he used to take out a bottle of scotch and plan to get drunk, but could never make himself do it.
‘I don’t drink, that’s not a virtue. I just never drank. And, I used to sit there and think to myself, I’m just gonna take out a bottle of scotch.
‘We always had liquor in the house, and I was gonna just drink it and…
Source: Linda Ikeji
