Iga Swiatek reveals her face was "red" for crying for 40 minutes straight after learning about her failed doping test and also admits she couldn't hold her tears for two weeks after her case went public.

In the latest episode of his podcast, Andy Roddick hosted the reigning Wimbledon champion. During one segment, they touched on the Pole's doping case, for which she received a symbolical one-month suspension after it was determined that she didn't intentionally or knowingly take a banned substance but that she was a victim of contaminated melatonin pills. 

Speaking with Roddick, Swiatek revealed that she was in the middle of a commercial photoshoot when she received an e-mail from the ITIA. 

“I had no idea if I should even continue the shoot, my face was all red, I was crying for about 40 minutes, but then – on the other hand – I knew that I couldn’t really tell them about it. So I just continued for the next few hours," the world No. 3 said on the Served with Andy Roddick.

Swiatek: I was crying for two weeks, I felt like I was losing my integrity

When Swiatek's case came to public light, she had already served 22 days and had only eight days left – that explained why the six-time Grand Slam champion missed the entire 2024 Asian swing after the US Open. 

“When everything came out [publicly], I was basically crying for two weeks, couldn’t practice, because I felt that tennis did this to me and that I’m in this place because of tennis. I felt like I was losing my integrity, like no one is going to believe me that I didn’t do anything wrong and that the whole world would turn their backs on me and that every accomplishment that I had would start to disappear," Swiatek admitted.

The WADA accepted the ITIA's explanation and sanction for Swiatek. After the WADA decided against contesting the ITIA's ruling, the 24-year-old Pole's doping case was officially over and she was no longer in danger of receiving another and possibly lengthier suspension.