Andy Carroll: West Ham was a really stressful time, I was at rock bottom, just falling apart and making bad decisions

ANDY CARROLL admits helium deed "rock bottom" during his clip astatine West Ham.

The 35-year-old is present playing distant from the limelight with Bordeaux successful the French 4th tier.

Carroll made the daze determination successful the summertime aft the nine were relegated 2 divisions owed to falling into administration.

While galore pursuit a last vocation payday, the nine-time capped England prima is enjoying a "quieter and relaxed" beingness successful France.

He admits helium is overmuch happier present aft battling injuries during his years successful the Premier League with Newcastle, Liverpool and West Ham.

Carroll opened up to Foot Mercato, admitting connected his days astatine the Hammers: "It was a truly pugnacious clip successful my life. It was a stressful clip for me.

"I was astatine stone bottom, everything was dark.

"It was hard to get backmost up. I was conscionable falling isolated and making atrocious decisions. It was conscionable truly tough.

"As a player, you conscionable privation to beryllium retired determination playing. But sometimes you perceive radical saying: 'Oh, he's inactive injured, helium should retire.' Things similar that that are not nice.

"At that constituent you are successful a hole, successful your ammunition and you are conscionable trying to get retired of it.

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"Luckily, I managed to get retired of it and I had a affirmative ending.

"So present I conscionable emotion playing football. I get paid to play football. I get paid to bash what I love.

"I've had a batch of injuries successful my career. I person been connected the bench, been a bit-part subordinate and disconnected the transportation sometimes, lone playing the past 10 minutes.

"I conscionable privation to decorativeness my vocation playing arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. And it is not astir money. It is conscionable astir enjoying my life."

Carroll, who precocious divorced his woman Billi Mucklow and started dating Lou Teasdale, is reportedly connected £750-a-week astatine Bordeaux.

The people antheral is already proving utile for the fallen giants, scoring 4 goals successful his archetypal 2 games.