 Roberts continued to run and manage his own automative service business and later became a Saab dealer.Unfortunately in the mid 1980s, Roberts was forced to close his business and as a result, his mental health deteriorated.Roberts suffered from mostly untreated clinical depression for the last 15 years of his life as a result of a cumulation of very challenging life events including widowhood and unresolved grief, single parenthood and the loneliness this entails, the difficult transition from sporting fame and accolades to a civilian life and losing his sense of identity with the closure of his business, at a time when men did not seek help and acknowledgement of mental health issues was taboo.