Posted on 08/25/2013 4:58:35 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Mike Tyson has revealed that he is on the verge of dying from alcohol and drug abuse after years of lying about being sober.
The former heavyweight champion made the startling revelation while at a press conference to promote ESPN's Friday Night Fights at the Turning Stone Resort in Verona, New York on Friday.
'I'm a bad guy sometimes,' he said. 'I did a lot of bad things, and I want to be forgiven... I wanna change my life, I wanna live a different life now. I wanna live my sober life.
'I don't wanna die. I’m on the verge of dying, because I’m a vicious alcoholic.'
After realizing what he had shared, he paused before adding that he has not consumed alcohol or drugs in six days, which he called 'a miracle'.
'I've been lying to everybody else that think I was sober, but I'm not,' he admitted. 'This is my sixth day. I'm never gonna use again.'
Tyson's struggle with alcohol and drugs has been well documented; he has been in and out of rehab three times.
He has also admitted that around five years ago he was contemplating suicide and overdosing - just before his four-year-old daughter Exodus died on May 26, 2009 when she was strangled by a cord while playing on a treadmill. He said that the tragedy served as a wake up call.
'I didn't think I'd be here much longer,' Tyson said. 'I was planning on killing myself. I was overdosing every night. I couldn't believe it - that I was waking up. Living life is different for me.
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Looks like Tigger.
George W Bush???? Well he was great at clearing brush.
It’s difficult to care.
It kind of depends on ones life experiences, whether one cares or not. Folks in recovery tend to look at others differently. That includes chronic relapsers as well as liars and bullshitters.
Because, we can see some of ourselves in all of it.
“It kind of depends on ones life experiences, whether one cares or not. Folks in recovery tend to look at others differently. That includes chronic relapsers as well as liars and bullshitters.Because, we can see some of ourselves in all of it.”
My thoughts also. Expressed better than I could have.
Prison converted muzzie. Go cry on your Koran.
History will remember him as the conqueror of Baghdad
“Speed the day” for a guy who has developed an inkling he is an “idiot” and who is fighting to learn how to NOT be an idiot?
May you not get the prayers you give...
Yeah, we do.
Tyson was great in his time.
Too bad his handlers just used him for his money, then stepped aside and left him to drift down to where he is now.
Should be a cautionary tale for all wannabe stars (athletes, musicians, whatever).
A good start Mike, is to get rid of the Che tattoo.
Come to CHRIST brother and HE will heal your body and soul.
LLS
Misplaced compassion. In six months, he’ll be living under an overpass selling his gold teef for a fifth of muscatel.
After the stuff he said about Sarah Palin he can’t die soon enough to satisfy me. It was so twisted, sick and disgusting I couldn’t believe anybody that vile could be allowed on TV to say it.
So Buh bye azzhole.
Based upon a great many interviews I’ve seen Tyson seems to have grocked that he is mean and small. AT 13 this dude was a savage. There is hope for him but he is having one hell of a rough go of it.
Die off. We need the room.
So, who would you say has true greatness then? Babe Ruth? Jimi Hendrix? Albert Einstein? Lady Gaga? ....Certainly, none of them.
Boo-freaking-hoo. Am I supposed to feel sorry for a guy who once traded in his Lamborghini because it was getting dirty? A lot of people who have had far less have done far more with it, and have fought a lot tougher odds to get there. So save your pity for someone deserving and let that genetic throwback die off before he pollutes the entire gene pool.
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