{"id":84822,"date":"2025-10-17T18:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84822\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:21:25","slug":"ricky-hattons-son-vows-to-keep-talking-about-mental-health-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84822\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton\u2019s son vows to keep talking about mental health | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are experiencing feelings of distress and isolation, or are struggling to cope, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritans.org\/\">The Samaritans<\/a> offers support; you can speak to someone for free over the phone, in confidence, on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/mailto:jo@samaritans.org\">jo@samaritans.org<\/a>, or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ricky-hatton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ricky-hatton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ricky-hatton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ricky-hatton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ricky Hatton<\/a>\u2019s son vowed to keep the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mental-health\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mental health<\/a> conversation going in the wake of his father\u2019s death. <\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old was found dead at his home in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/hyde\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hyde<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/greater-manchester-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> stating they were not treating the death as suspicious. At the opening of his inquest on Thursday, his provisional cause of death was given as hanging.<\/p>\n<p>His son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/campbell-hatton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Campbell Hatton<\/a> said that hearing his father speak about mental health made him feel more able to. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200aI&#8217;ve seen him openly talk about it, so I know it&#8217;s okay to do,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/good-morning-britain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Good Morning Britain<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is just about passing that message on now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you are experiencing feelings of distress and isolation, or are struggling to cope, The Samaritans offers support;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-84822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}