Archbishop Emeritus Paul Cremona refuted popular belief that he is suffering from depression or mental health problems, insisting his ailments boiled down to sheer exhaustion.

Speaking frankly for the first time about health problems that have dogged him since 2012, Mgr Cremona quashed reports that he had ever been clinically diagnosed with a mental disorder.

“No, it wasn’t depression. I had worked too much. I had been forewarned I would burn out. I hadn’t taken a day off in the first five years; I just kept going, but at a certain point I succumbed to exhaustion,” he told The Sunday Times of Malta.

Watch excerpts of the interview above. Read more in The Sunday Times of Malta.

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