“I Began to Be S*icidal”: Deion Sanders Recalls Ugly Divorce With Ex Wife Pilar to Drop Shocking Truth Bomb

Deion Sanders’s life is a tale of closely woven monumental highs and treacherously steep lows. Being the ‘SI Sportsperson of the Year: 2023’ Prime surely knows his way around all the highs life brought him. Being a style guru the moment he stepped foot in the NFL, securing the Lombardi trophy twice, and being enshrined as a Hall of Famer in 2011, you already know it all. Yet, maneuvering around these did not prepare him for the tumultuous low life was about to hurl at him.

Deion Sanders underwent his first divorce in 1998 with his first wife, Carolyn Chambers. Prime was around 30 years old when he got his first divorce filed due to ‘unresolved issues’. The two had taken their vows in 1989 and were blessed with two children during the decade they spent together. The verdict of the court of giving Carolyn Chambers the custody of Deiondra Sanders and Deion Sanders Jr. was a defining point of Sanders’ life.

“Those are the only two people people that I felt like love me in my whole life because it was genuine. Like these are my kids. They came from me,” Sanders expressed the turmoil he went through when he was separated from his first-born kids, almost on the verge of breaking down. Then, he dropped the truth that had the fans aghast. “I began to be s*icidal,” Sanders said in his interview with Ed Mylett.

Despite having the best of the luxuries in his life, Prime Time felt a vacuuming loneliness settling into his life. Deion Sanders also reported undergoing a severe depressive episode that prompted him to commit s*icide. Once he was out of the episode, Sanders shared an incident that left him scarred when he first addressed what he went through. “When I came out and told the world, this is what I was going through, this is what I was dealing with, they didn’t believe me.” While the fans were not too emphatic towards Prime, the one who brought him out of the episode was.