Joe Biden Reveals He Once Had Suicidal Thoughts

US President Joe Biden has stated that after losing his wife and daughter in a car accident, he thought about ending his own life.

The US President talked candidly about his sorrow in a conversation with radio broadcaster Howard Stern following the deaths of his first wife Nelia and their one-year-old daughter Naomi in a car accident 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 added that he used to pull out a bottle of scotch and plot to get wasted after his wife passed away, but he was never able to get himself to do so.

“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.

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“We always had liquor in the house, and I was gonna just drink it and get drunk, and I can never bring myself to do it.”

Biden has discussed his reasons for not drinking alcohol on multiple occasions. He once said, “There are enough drunks” in his family history.

The revelations came during a surprise visit on Stern’s SiriusXM show, which the White House had not announced prior to its airing and which was not included in the president’s public itinerary.

Also during the interview, Biden said he would be more than happy to debate his Republican rival Donald Trump, saying: “I am, somewhere, I don’t know when, but I am happy to debate him.”

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