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

He wo🍸uld eat only broccoli in between long runs in 2014, his second full season, while representing Williams.

"I trained myself to be sore physically and mentally,” h൲e told . 

“Things got𒁏 out of hand and became an addiction. No eating disorder was officially diagnosed, but it certainly was.

"It wasn't quite healthy. I wanted to be the best, and I thought I should do it. If the team says I have to 🍌weigh 68 poun꧒ds and I naturally weigh 73 pounds, then you do everything you can to get it."

Jules Bianchi died after an accident in 2014 - an incidentಞ which Bottas struggled with.

"I needed a psychologist to he🔯lp me recover, whose first assessment of me was that I am almost like a robot who♏ only wants to reach his goal and has no emotions at all,” he said. 

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

Bottas has completed his first season with Alfa Romeo, after leaving Mercedes, a period where his f♉uture was at stake.

"Last season was again a more difficult stre♒tch when the future was on hold and I didn't know which team I was racing for,” he said. 

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

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