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'After the [Floyd] Mayweather fight I started drinking a lot more heavily and ultimately I fell out with my parents and that was difficult for me and I did not care if I lived or died,' Hatton said.

'I contemplated suicide many, many times. I started thinking of different ways to get through it and I thought I could drink myself to death.

'So consequently I got more depressed and I ended up taking drugs to enable me to drink more and it was a vicious circle.'

He said: 'It was my first taste of defeat as a pro after 35 fights. Even though it was Floyd Mayweather, I turned up thinking I was going to beat him.

'I became so used to success and then all of a sudden it was like "I'm not used to this".'

A host of the biggest names in boxing and the wider sporting world paid tribute to Hatton following his sad passing.

Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn, who knew the 46-year-old well, described him 'as the last of a rare breed of boxers'.

At the Conor Benn against Chris Eubank press conference, Hearn said: 'I think it was so important to say something,' he said, 'That’s a big platform with a lot of people listening. People need to understand the importance this guy had on British boxing and to people individually.