“My Girlfriend & I Were Going Through a Breakup” – Bubba Wallace Explained His Depression Revelation, Made on Dale Jr’s Podcast, in 2020

Bubba Wallace has certainly, undoubtedly, brought light to many dark areas in NASCAR as well as changed, or at least, made everyone reconsider certain accepted norms in the sport. One of them is the idea of a racecar driver being this tough person who will swallow just about every hardship in life with ease.

The 23XI Racing driver opened up on his struggle and journey through depression a few years ago, something which attracted a lot of deserved praise to his name for re-contextualizing drivers as human beings with emotions.

Wallace also revealed in a 2020 interview with Carlos Watson the reasons or factors that added fuel to his depression.

“I’m an open book. You know, the whole depression thing, my girlfriend and I were going through a breakup at that time, the on-track performance was not there, trying to do everything I could, holding everything in,” he said. “It just finally got to a peak, to where if somebody asked, ‘How is Bubba Wallace doing today?'”

“It all came out at once and I was just like, ‘Yeah I’m not good. I’m depressed. I’m not happy about anything. Nothing’s going right.'”

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Bubba Wallace never considered depression “a sign of weakness”

In a revealing interview with Dale Earnhardt Jr. a few years ago, Bubba Wallace candidly opened up on the journey in which he had to accept his depression, the help he took, and what it did to him.

“I guess I’ve never looked at it as a sign of weakness or coming out and talking about any issue that I have,” Wallace said.

Speaking about taking help through therapy, Wallace described how he went to counseling, something which he initially found rather unnatural.

“I went and did that twice with a psychiatrist and psychologist and it was very weird, sitting there talking like this is what I’m feeling. ‘Well, why are you feeling this way?’ I don’t know, I just am,” he said of the therapy.

“They said you’ve got to give it time, it’s not going to go anywhere in two weeks.”

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