James Packer is best known as the billionaire businessman. What many don’t know is the private mental health battle he’s faced since his late 20s, a fight so crippling, he has been suicidal. It’s fair to say anyone with Packer’s fortune expects little in the way of sympathy. But that’s the point about mental illness: it doesn’t discriminate. In this candid, warts-and-all exclusive interview, Packer opens up about his deeply personal and decades-long struggle. Packer is raw and honest as he reveals in his first television interview in over a decade some of the darkest times in his life, the merry-go-round of medication and doctors who have tried to help, and the daily addiction he can’t shake.
