In a span of five years, beginning in 2015, the former National Football League quarterback Erik Kramer tried unsuccessfully to die by suicide, then lost hundreds of thousands of dollars after a woman who arranged to marry him in secret plundered his life’s earnings while he struggled to heal.
Kramer nonetheless considers himself an “extremely lucky man” and knows his “recovery – both mental and physical – has been extraordinary by any definition”, he said in an essay shared with the Guardian. Wednesday marks the release of a new documentary podcast aimed at unpacking his remarkable ordeal.
