Mario Williams told his former fiance that he was experiencing suicidal thoughts while also on painkillers in a series of text messages exchanged between the pair while breaking up in November.

Accusing Williams of experiencing "dramatic mood swings" throughout the engagement, Erin Marzouki released a series of text messages as the two are tied in a legal battle over a $785,000 diamond engagement ring.

On the day of the text message exchange, Williams wrote that he took three hydrocodones that morning before the Buffalo Bills' game that day against the New England Patriots.

Williams planned on taking two more hydrocodones on the plane home, which is classified as a narcotic and prescribed to relieve moderate to severe pain.

Marzouki responded by urging Williams to get help.

"Why don't you talk to someone? Clearly you're not happy & if your takin pills that's bad," she wrote.

"I'm still here and always will be," Williams wrote on Twitter on Friday. "I'm too strong for ridicule and the childish extremes those will do to try and taint a persons name when in reality you make me stronger, hungrier and more determined."