‘I can’t go on like this,’ Chris Kamara reveals heartbreaking way he disappeared from Sky Sports after health battle
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CHRIS KAMARA has opened up on the heartbreaking way he was forced to call time on his Sky Sports career. The much-loved football pundit was a mainstay on fans' TV screens for over two decades, which in itself followed a playing career spanning 20 years.
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His double act alongside Jeff Stelling on Sky Sports Soccer Saturday produced entertainment gold time and time again. However, in March 2022 "Kammy", as he is affectionately known to many, shared details of the condition he was suffering with, apraxia, a neurological disorder disrupting the transfer of thought from brain to speech.
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But three seasons on, Kamara is making a triumphant return to TV to reunite with Stelling on Amazon Prime watching Nottingham Forest face Tottenham. In an interview with the Mirror, Kamara opened up on how he was encouraged to open up about his condition and how revealing it to the world changed everything.
He said: "My last game for Sky was at Rotherham against Shrewsbury, and when I got back to the car I knew I had made a complete balls-up of it. "When I checked my phone, on Twitter there were loads of comments with people saying, ‘He must have been drunk’ or ‘has he had a stroke?’.
"I rang my therapist and said, ‘This can’t continue. I can’t go on like this.’ And he replied, ‘You can – but you need to tell everyone what’s going on.’. “That’s when I resolved to ‘come out’ and it was the moment that changed everything.".
