The left-back revealed his 16 months of torment before the World Cup which was sparked by a nightmarish chains of events.
In a candid interview with the Mirror, the 28-year-old explained that the response he received from family, friends and public left him tearful.
Rose revealed: "The reaction I've had has been unbelievable,
“I was back home in Doncaster over the weekend. My brother plays for Grimsby and I was at the game (against Forest Green). I had two people come up to me at the game thanking me for what I’d said.
“They had suffered from it and it had helped them.
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“I went away with England, there was a member of staff there who’d suffered from it and it thanked me as well.
“It just made me wish maybe I’d done it sooner. Or maybe after the World Cup, but yes, I’m glad I did it in the end.
“I remember we played at Leeds – England against Costa Rica before the World Cup.
"I remember waking up that morning, the morning after it came out. I woke up to a lot of messages and I got really upset. I wasn’t expecting it. I wasn’t expecting the amount of messages that I got.”
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