MLB All-Star Jarren Duran Reveals He Attempted Suicide During 2022 Season in New Netflix Doc “The Clubhouse”

• Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran opens up about his struggles with mental health in the new Netflix documentary The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox.
• While chronicling Boston's 2024 season, Duran confessed that he attempted suicide during the 2022 Major League Baseball season, when he struggled to perform on the field as a rookie with Boston.
• "His heart is firmly in the right place," series director Greg Whiteley tells PEOPLE of Duran's decision to open up about his struggles.
  

A new Netflix documentary series that follows the Boston Red Sox throughout the 2024 Major League Baseball season is shining a new light on players' mental health.

In the eight-episode The Clubhouse: A Year with The Red Sox, outfielder Jarren Duran opens up on camera about his lifelong struggles with his mental health. Duran, 28, broke out for the Red Sox with an All-Star worthy season last year, but he struggled mightily as a rookie in 2022 and said a series of high-profile errors he made amid a highly critical fan and media environment in Boston left him struggling to the point that he "didn't even want to be here anymore."

When director Greg Whiteley asked Duran to clarify whether he meant with the Red Sox or "here on planet Earth," Duran said, "Probably both. Yeah. Probably both. That was a really tough time for me."

Duran then admitted that during the 2022 season he once attempted to shoot himself, "but nothing happened."

"To this day, I think God just didn't let me take my own life because I seriously don't know why it didn't go off," he said. "But I took it as a sign that, 'Alright, I might have to be here for a reason,' so that's when I started to look at myself in the mirror [differently]."

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Duran's high expectations for himself and struggles with his self-esteem are documenteed throughout the eight-episode series. The series' filmmaker Whiteley tells PEOPLE in an interview that he felt Duran wanted to share his story in the series to display struggles they believe other athletes do experience but don't acknowledge publicly.

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"Jarren, to his credit, is absolutely fearless. He really is somebody that is a champion of open and ...