Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal commented on Ben Simmons, a current Brooklyn Nets basketball player, opening up about his mental health.
O’NEAL: “Well, he was talking about, don't talk about it if you don't know what's going on. Well, if you don't talk, nobody knows what's going on. So now you talking, everybody knows what's going on. So I guess people are going to baby you and coddle you but that's when we have that special I was asking certain questions.”
TURNER: “Yes.”
O’NEAL: “When I think about mental health, people that are down, I see them. They're down. They’re all the way down. You know, the fact that you sitting in your green leather and you know, always flexing your famous girlfriend and your Ferrari and all that, you look fine to me. That's all I'm saying Nischelle. I’m just going to leave it at that. No, no. I’m just going to leave it at that. I’m just saying you look fine to me. That’s all I’m saying.”
TURNER: “Okay. All right. “And you are correct and people can suffer in silence. They definitely can and I'm glad like I said, he did say that he thinks taking the first step in admitting that he's got mental health struggles, will go a long way in conversations.”
O’NEAL: “We all have struggles.”
TURNER: “Yes.”
