During a recent press conference, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson said that he is “on the verge of dying, because I’m a vicious alcoholic.”
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“I’m a bad guy sometimes. I did a lot of bad things, and I want to be forgiven,” said the 47-year-old Tyson. ”I’m negative, and I’m dark,” Tyson added, “and I want to do bad stuff.”
Tyson that that he went to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting to discuss his temptation to use drugs and alcohol. He went on to say he hasn’t “drank or took drugs in six days, and for me that’s a miracle.” The former boxer vowed not to use drugs or alcohol going forward.
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“I’ve been lying to everybody else that think I was sober, but I’m not,” said Tyson, who is now a boxing promoter. “This is my sixth day. I’m never gonna use again.”
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“I hate myself. I’m trying to kill myself,” Tyson said in his seemingly off-the-cuff comments, before celebrating having resisted temptation over the past six days. “I hate myself a lot, but I made myself proud of myself. And I don’t do that much.”
