{"id":29394,"date":"2017-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/pilko-praises-his-old-mate-for-speaking-about-private-battle\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T00:00:00","slug":"pilko-praises-his-old-mate-for-speaking-about-private-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/pilko-praises-his-old-mate-for-speaking-about-private-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilko praises his old mate for speaking about private battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tony Pilkington has paid tribute to Mark Aiston on FIVEAA after Mark publicly revealed his long battle with alcohol and gambling problems.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to our old mate Mark Aiston for having the courage to come out and admit the problems that he\u2019s had,\u201d Pilko said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/entertainment\/confidential\/veteran-broadcaster-mark-aiston-reveals-his-battle-with-depression-alcoholism-and-gambling-addiction\/news-story\/f559bf2c6eeb4173098edc7d59ded747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark spoke to The Advertiser<\/a> over the weekend about his private fight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere\u2019s a connection between being a gambling addict, and being an alcoholic&#8230; I\u2019m addicted to both there\u2019s no question,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat that did is that is it exacerbated things, it made things worse (with my mental health). Those two things are intrinsically linked to mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mark admitted to having dark moments, but these were always followed by thoughts of his family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere have been times where I\u2019ve thought&#8230; and it makes me quite emotional thinking about it&#8230; there have been times where I\u2019ve thought, there\u2019s got to be an easier way. There\u2019s got to be a way where I\u2019m not feeling like this anymore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what happens is you sort of think to yourself, I could do something but what the f&#8212; is that going to do to Judith and Bridget? It really upsets me, it upsets me because sometimes you just want the hurt and how you\u2019re feeling to go away but you don\u2019t want to do anything because you know how much hurt that will cause your wife and daughter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark reassured fans he is in \u201cgood spot at the moment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a purpose&#8230; I\u2019m busy but it\u2019s a good busy. I\u2019m feeling good about everything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pilko said Mark certainly wasn\u2019t on his own.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI know there\u2019s a famous media personality in Sydney who has exactly the same problem,\u201d he told FIVEAA breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[He] covers it well, works brilliantly, but his wife and management are saying, no, whatever you do don\u2019t come out and admit the fact you are suffering from depression. It won\u2019t be good for your career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this is a bloke that you guys know well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least Mark\u2019s had the courage to come out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/jade-robran\/aa-announcer-opens-up-about-his-ride-from-hell\"><strong>\u2018aa ANNOUNCER OPENS UP ABOUT HIS \u2018RIDE FROM HELL\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/leon-byner\/Good-mate-s-STUNNING-comments-about-Sam-Newman\"><strong>GOOD MATE\u2019S STUNNING COMMENTS ABOUT SAM NEWMAN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Pilkington has paid tribute to Mark Aiston on FIVEAA after Mark publicly revealed his long battle with alcohol and gambling problems. \u201cCongratulations to our old mate Mark Aiston for having the courage to come out and admit the problems that he\u2019s had,\u201d Pilko said on Monday. Mark spoke to The Advertiser over the weekend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pilko praises his old mate for speaking about private battle - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/pilko-praises-his-old-mate-for-speaking-about-private-battle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pilko praises his old mate for speaking about private battle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tony Pilkington has paid tribute to Mark Aiston on FIVEAA after Mark publicly revealed his long battle with alcohol and gambling problems. \u201cCongratulations to our old mate Mark Aiston for having the courage to come out and admit the problems that he\u2019s had,\u201d Pilko said on Monday. 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