1 week Ago By Lauren Ironmonger
James Packer has opened up about his struggles with mental health, revealing he was left feeling like a “complete zombie” after being prescribed lithium in 2022. In an interview with the Seven Network’s Spotlight on Sunday night, his first face-to-face interview in almost a decade, the billionaire businessman was candid about some of his personal battles, including his bipolar diagnosis, Ozempic use and his break-up with singer Mariah Carey in 2016. James Packer speaking candidly on Spotlight on Sunday night (left) and with then fiancée Mariah Carey in 2016.
Credit: Seven Network; Getty Images “Mariah and I had broken up and she thought I’d planted a story in a magazine, which I hadn’t, and it made her look bad,” the 57-year-old told Spotlight ’s Liam Bartlett. “She was threatening to say things about me and so it was, um ..
. it was a train wreck. It was a train wreck.
“The times that I’ve been at my worst, you know, I’ve had a lot on my mind.” Packer and Carey first met in 2014, sparking a whirlwind romance that culminated in their engagement in 2016. The pair called the engagement off just months later in October that year.
For her part, Carey has spoken little about the relationship, failing to mention Packer in her memoir. But she told The Guardian in 2020 : “If it was a relationship that mattered, it’s in the book. If not, it didn’t occur.
“We didn’t have a physical relationship, to be honest with you.” Packer has previously spoken about his mental health when he revealed his bipolar diagnosis to a NSW casino inquiry in 2020..
