Mike Tyson Reveals That He Lied About His Sobriety

Mike Tyson Reveals That He Lied About His Sobriety

Mike Tyson recently made an appearance on Fox Sports to discuss an upcoming series about his life. Although the former heavyweight champion appeared in high spirits compared to his situation around four years ago, he revealed that his life remains in a bad place.

He was also asked about his meeting with Teddy Atlas, his former assistant trainer. The two have not been in good terms for a good number of years. Tyson also revealed that he lied about his sobriety and was off alcohol and drug for only six days.

Although the former champion apologized to Atlas, he said it was not easy.

However, he added that he made the right decision in apologizing. He said that he made Cus D’Amato, his former trainer and mentor, proud. He also felt proud about what he did.

Mike Tyson said he wants to ask for forgiveness from the people he hurt. He also wants to forgive other people who hurt him. He said that it was necessary to change his life in order for other people to forgive him. He also said that it was not easy since he was a bad person, who did a lot of bad things. He also described himself as a bad person.

At this point of the interview, the former champion talked about his alcohol and drug problems. He has been telling everyone during the last four years that he already cleaned up his act. The former champion went around the country talking about his life.

His tour symbolized a clean Mike Tyson who admitted his mistakes and leaving his past behind. However, he said that negative changes happened and he was not honest about being sober.

When he spoke, his voice cracked and he started to whimper. Recent years of supposed progress in his life appeared to be all false. It appeared that the former champion was becoming an addict who was good at telling lies.

Mike Tyson said that he was on his sixth day of sobriety and he was not going to use again.

Posted by Andre Monohan on Monday August 26 2013, 4:36 PM EST. Ref: Yahoo. Link. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0