Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. Photo: Evan Agostini / Invision / AP
Mike Tyson made some stunning revelations about his ongoing drug and alcohol addiction during a press conference on Friday.
“I haven’t drank or took drugs in six days, and for me that’s a miracle. I’ve been lying to everybody else that think I was sober, but I’m not,” Tyson, 47, told reporters in New York, where he was promoting his first fight card with Iron Mike Productions.
“This is my sixth day. I’m never gonna use again.”
In recounting his preparations to make peace with his estranged former trainer, Teddy Atlas, Tyson spoke of a recent Alcoholics Anonymous meeting he attended, the Huffington Post reported.
“I’m a [expletive]. I’m a bad guy sometimes,” he continued.
“I did a lot of bad things, and I want to be forgiven. So in order for me to be forgiven, I hope they can forgive me. 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. Wow. God, this is some interesting stuff.” – The Washington Times
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