The veteran Alfa Romeo driver was referring to the early years of his F1 ๊career when he w𒐪as battling to meet a weight limit.

He would eat only broccoli in ཧbetween long runs in 2014, his second f🦂ull season, while representing Williams.

"I traine𝄹d myself to be sore physically and mentally,” he told . 

“Things got out of hand and b💯ecame an addiction. No eating disorder was officially diagnosed, but it certainly was.

"It wasn't quite healthy. I wanted to be the be💝st, and I thought I should do it. If the team says🐓 I have to weigh 68 pounds and I naturally weigh 73 pounds, then you do everything you can to get it."

Jules Bianchi died after an a𝔉ccident in 2014 - an incident wh𒈔ich Bottas struggled with.

"I needed a psychologist to help me recover, whose first assessment of me was that I am almost like a robot who only wants to reach his go🍬al and has no emotions at all,” 🦂he said. 

“It was startling. It's true that back then I didn't h🎃ave any life other than F1."

Bottas has complete🦩d his first season with Alfa Romeo, after leaving Mercedes, a period where his future was at stak🎉e.

"Last season was again a more difficult stretch when the future was on hold ℱand I didn't know which team I was racing for,൩” he said. 

“It was a big hurdle to ask for outside help.

"You think you're such a tough dude that you don't need help to be able to do things by lookiꦚng in the mirror. But a ꦆprofessional knows how to ask the right questions and open a lot of locks."