Andy cole illness vs disease

Andy Cole has revealed how therapy lifted him out of a "real dark place" after struggling with health issues.

The former Manchester United and England striker underwent a kidney transplant in 2017 having been diagnosed with disease in the organ three years prior.

Admitting that he had sometimes been left unable to get out of bed having "lost control" of his body, and unable to confront the reality of a post-sporting career life now dominated by medication, Cole had to battle to remind himself to "keep going".

And having convinced himself to open up in therapy, Cole stresses that talking about his issues was a "massive" part of his recovery.

"At the start I couldn’t do it.

Being brutally honest, I couldn’t do it," Cole, speaking on the Original Penguin X Campaign Against Living Miserably Under The Surface podcast, explai