Formulation 1 TV icon Ted Kravitz has apologised to Valtteri Bottas for a remark that has dragged the star driver’s consuming issues again into the highlight.
The Sky Sports activities commentator revealed over the weekend he had sought Bottas out and apologised to him personally on the Bahrain Grand Prix after turning into conscious his remark in regards to the Alfa Romeo racer’s weight may have been thought of insensitive.
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Kravitz advised the TV viewers he feels “horrible” after being advised about Bottas’ earlier struggles with an consuming and weight reduction dysfunction.
“I need to spend just a little little bit of time simply to inform you about one thing silly and insensitive I did, not knowingly, with Valtteri Bottas on Thursday,” he mentioned on his Sky Sports activities Formulation 1 wrap-up present.
“He’s misplaced a little bit of weight round his jaw and I used to be fairly stunned. I mentioned, ‘Oh, you recognize, wow, you look so slim and as my mum would say you must eat some extra meals.’
“‘He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m slim and I’m wholesome’.
“I believed ‘that was a wierd factor to say’ when he mentioned wholesome and I used to be later made conscious of an interview he did earlier on this 12 months, which I hadn’t seen, the place he was speaking about when he had near what he described as an consuming dysfunction. He’d dieted a lot that he was unhealthy and shedding weight.
“I felt so horrible about joking about him slimming down that I’ve since talked to his workforce and after I see him I’ll clear it up and say I had no concept that he was near an consuming dysfunction, and apologise for any offence that I had completed.
“I believed it was to actually spectacular to have the bravery to return out and speak about what previously was an consuming dysfunction and good for Valtteri for talking out about it.”
The Finnish driver is reported to have accepted the apology with out the incident progressing additional.
Bottas had solely final month spoken about his struggles with the situation.
He revealed there was a time early in his profession he pushed his physique to harmful ranges “bodily and mentally” whereas attempting to determine himself within the hardest motorsport class on the planet.
He advised an area Finnish information company he was dwelling off steamed broccoli and noticed his weight drop beneath a wholesome degree.
“I educated myself to ache, bodily and mentally,” he mentioned in an episode for season two of the Maria Veitola collection,” he mentioned.
“It obtained out of hand, and it grew to become an dependancy. No consuming dysfunction was formally identified, nevertheless it was positively there.”
“It wasn’t very wholesome. I needed to be one of the best, and I believed I had to do this.
“If the workforce says that I’ve to weigh 68 kilos and I naturally weigh 73 kilos, then they are going to do all the pieces for that.”
He mentioned he consulted with a psychologist to handle the situation and has since been capable of conquer the problem.
