Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins reveals scary messages from fans

He’s the loveable larrikin with a swag full of bogan slogans but Nick “Honey Badger” Cummins’ was lost for words after fans and those on the brink of suicide started flooding his social media asking for words of advice.

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He’s the loveable larrikin with a swag full of bogan slogans but Nick “Honey Badger” Cummins’ brutal honesty about his own emotions has made him an unlikely last resort for men on the brink of suicide.

Cummins has been flooded with messages from troubled men struggling to cope with family breakdowns, terminal illness, depression, and thoughts of self-harm or suicide.

Anyone can send Cummins a message on social media site Instagram, which is not lost on lovesick Bachelor fans who at least once a day angle for a romantic interlude, but the cries for help are the only messages he takes seriously.

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“Very regularly they’re talking about serious things, like time frames of when they’re going to end it — commit suicide,” he said.

The Wallabies winger turned reality TV star will often open up about his own troubles to reassure his callers — discussing his father Mark’s prostate cancer and sister Elizabeth and brother Joe’s cystic fibrosis.

He famously picked no one on the finale of The Bachelor. Picture: Supplied

He helped those who have messaged him by discussing the troubles his dad, sister and brother have gone through. Picture: Supplied

“I’ve been in hour-long conversations with 17-year-olds planning on topping themselves,” he said.

“They start opening up about some hectic shit, some terrible things they’ve experienced, but I don’t play it up.

“I often say ‘mate, you’ve had a rough trot, you must be a tough bastard to still be trucking along the way you are, and have the balls to call me — that’s the sign of a man’.”

Cummins has admitted to struggling while filming The Bachelor earlier this year. Picture: Supplied

Cummins admitted he “struggled a lot” with his own mental health during production of The Bachelor, which turned him into a “zombie” after filming for 16 hours a day for three-and-a-half months.

Cummins has been passionate about men’s mental health for six year and in his book “The Honey Badger Guide to Life”, implores men to open up before being consumed by mental demons.

Australian men are three times more likely to commit suicide than women, according to official data in 2017.

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