Mathieu Bastareaud reveals he tried to kill himself after France’s 2009 tour of New Zealand

• ‘I took a big knife and slit my veins,’ admits France centre in autobiography• Incident linked to lie he told after injuring himself in drunken fall in 2009The France and Toulon centre Mathieu Bastareaud tried to kill himself in 2009, he has revealed in a candid autobiography that describes his battle with alcoholism and depression.The book, entitled in translation Head High: Confessions Of A Terrible Child Of Rugby, also tells of Bastareaud’s troubled childhood, in which he suffered from bulimia, and his regret at having not come clean about the reasons for the facial injury he suffered on …