{"id":22124,"date":"2013-08-26T13:51:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T11:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/former-boxing-champ-tyson-makes-stunning-revelations\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T13:51:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T11:51:12","slug":"former-boxing-champ-tyson-makes-stunning-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/former-boxing-champ-tyson-makes-stunning-revelations\/","title":{"rendered":"Former boxing champ Tyson makes stunning revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=14589\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14589\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14589  \" alt=\"Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. Photo: Evan Agostini \/ Invision \/ AP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fd23d_people-mike-tyson_lea_s640x420-600x393.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. Photo: Evan Agostini \/ Invision \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>Mike Tyson made some stunning revelations about his ongoing drug and alcohol addiction during a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t drank or took drugs in six days, and for me that\u2019s a miracle. I\u2019ve been lying to everybody else that think I was sober, but I\u2019m not,\u201d Tyson, 47, told reporters in New York, where he was promoting his first fight card with Iron Mike Productions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my sixth day. I\u2019m never gonna use again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a [expletive]. I\u2019m a bad guy sometimes,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanna live my sober life. I don\u2019t wanna die. I\u2019m on the verge of dying, because I\u2019m a vicious alcoholic. Wow. God, this is some interesting stuff.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Mike Tyson news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/mike-tyson\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/40ca8_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u201cI haven\u2019t drank or took drugs in six days, and for me that\u2019s a miracle. I\u2019ve been lying to everybody else that think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}