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Post by Admin on Mar 5, 2019 18:17:58 GMT
Gracie Gold reveals to Access Live's Natalie Morales how she turned her life around after suffering severe depression. Hear how her competitor Ashley Wagner started Gracie on the road to recovery.
Before the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, figure skater Gracie Gold announced she was stepping away from the ice to deal with personal struggles. A year later, she talks to Savannah Guthrie about the pressure facing athletes and her fight to return to the rink.
Gracie Gold - 2014 Olympic Team Bronze Medalist, 2x National Champion, 6x National Medalist and 4x World Team Member sits with the host of No Bull Biz TV - Jeremy Crawford and tells all.
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Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2019 18:56:51 GMT
Gracie Gold is speaking out, telling everyone about her harrowing battle with depression, revealing how close she came to taking her life. In an interview with the New York Times, the two-time U.S. national champion figure skater who was once seen as a rising star in her sport opened up about her demons. “I was suicidal for months,” Gold said. “If I had just continued the way I was in Detroit, I’d probably be dead.” Gold’s slide started after the 2016 World Figure Skating Championships, when a fall from first after the short program to fourth after the free stake was devastating. “It wasn’t just her pain,” her mother Denise said. “It was her family’s pain. It was her agent’s pain. It was the country’s pain. It was that she was letting everyone down.” She was gorging on food, leading to significant weight gain, sleeping 24 hours at a time — or staying up for days, sometimes skipping workouts. Gold thought about taking her life repeatedly. The lights of her apartment were frequently off. She was living in darkness. She never realized how scary depression was until she lived it. “I’d hear someone say, ‘I’m so depressed,’ and I’d think, ‘Tough it out,’” the 23-year-old Gold recalled.
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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2019 17:56:19 GMT
Olympic figure skater Gracie Gold makes it look easy on the ice, but the 23-year-old admits that her life can be more complicated. Her honesty — about everything from body-image pressure to mental health — has made her an inspiration to others. I love my legs now, but I didn't always. They were always my biggest insecurity. I played sports my whole life, so I would go to school and, you know, I always had quads, I always had hamstrings, I always had calves that the other girls didn't. Even some of the other boys didn't have those muscles. As I grew older, I was like, "Why are they so big?" Like, they have lumps and bumps that none of the other girls have. Especially growing up, I didn't really get it.
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Post by Admin on May 11, 2019 18:54:12 GMT
When Moira North presented Gracie Gold with Ice Theatre of New York's Will Sears Award at Chelsea Piers New York early this month, Gold's two U.S. titles and Olympic team bronze medal were the last things on her mind. Sears, a U.S. novice pairs champion (with Katie Boxwell), died suddenly and inexplicably in 2002 at age 20. A poet, painter and film student, his motto – Dare Greatly – lives on with the award, given annually to a skater who demonstrates exceptional courage in the pursuit of his or her dreams. "Gracie had obviously been struggling, falling off that pinnacle, getting back to competition," North, ITNY's founder, said. "She gave interviews, went on TV, spoke about her struggles."
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Post by Admin on May 13, 2019 17:50:30 GMT
This week on Music Monday we feature the incredibly talented Gracie Gold's Sochi 2014 performance to "And All that Jazz" by Catherine Zeta-Jones from the film Chicago.
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