Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman said he feared his political career would end when he checked himself into Walter Reed for clinical depression this year.
Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman revealed that he believed his political career would end when he checked into the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for depression treatment.
«Well, when – when it got released where I was and where it was going, it was – it was a big story,» Fetterman said in a segment aired Sunday on NBC’s «Meet the Press.» «And so, I had assumed that that would be the end of my career. And I don’t know what that – what kind of impact that would have on my family or anything, so I – I really didn’t know what would happen at that point.»
NBC’s Kristen Welker had asked the Pennsylvania Democrat if he worried about speaking openly and honestly to the public about his mental health and depression struggles, especially last February when news spread he had checked into Walter Reed.
«And it would be my goal to… if somebody could hear this kind of a message and this conversation that we’re having might make a different choice,» Fetterman told Welker.
