One of the most important values of rugby is its ethos and its value of

respect. It's a matter where you're from of the color of your skin is your religious beliefs your sexual orientation

There is a place for you within the rugby family

This is not soccer is that clear back you go get on it again and that's why rugby means a lot to me there is no doubt that you know I probably

wouldn't have able to be who I am today and being myself if it wasn't for the

great sport that rugby is. When I was 24, 25 years of age I was suffering from

mental health issues, very depressed in a very, very dark place fighting

against my sexuality, becoming somebody I didn't want to be.

Balemic, I thought there's only one way out now.

And that is to end my life.

And that's when my moment, the moment my life changed in accepting who I was. Until you accept there is something that you need to address in your life, then you're not going to get out of that.

You're not going to do something about it. I accept I know that I, who I was.

Rugby's allowed me just as anybody else. It hasn't treated me just as anybody else.

It hasn't treated me any differently. I owe more to my family and friends and the sport of rugby than they or

or rugby will ever ever ever go to me. Oh, you're not.