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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Tyson, just like you and me, is a human being and a sinner who will face Almighty God some day. Be it Tyson or Trevon or my dear old dad I'd rather they got it straight in the time they had BEFORE they meet His Majesty than to go covered in crime and rage and unrepentence . Tyson may have had the sort of economic success that a great many of might have viewed as freedom and managed more wisely but he (again, like you and me) also had a lot of other drag, insidious drag that non but God can quantify. I hope he beats it. He was damn near a feral animal starting out. I hope he gets as much time as he needs. Funny thing is it doesn't seem to me, based upon listening to him, that he would today wish on you what you have wished on him. His confronting his own meanness puts him one large step ahead of you.
When I rape a couple of women, and beat the stuffing out of a few dozen more, then go to prison and get my face tattooed like a New Guinea native, then go muslim, become addicted to drugs, then booze, then God knows what else, then go on TV and whine about it, he'll be one large step ahead of me.
Don't start counting the days yet ...
And by the way, he only "confronted his own meanness" after decades spent abusing himself and everyone around him. When he was on top, he strutted around like his crap came out in baggies. Now that he's a complete freak of a has-been, he's contrite and apologetic. Let me suggest that the time for humility is when it has the most influence, not when you've got so much to be humble about.
Feel sorry for him if you will. I won't waste one drop of sympathy on that wreck.
His sins, mine and yours, are not relative to one another. They are monolithic to our lives. You get no credit for not beating the crap out of someone or managing not to be the clown Tyson is. Tyson is aware of his faults. He bounces between regretting them and succumbing to his anger. Your wishing that he die soon is a profound meanness in yourself you refuse to recognize.
As I’ve said repeatedly, Tyson is a churl and a comic failure. I can’t muster one iota of sympathy for him. If that makes me mean, so be it.
I’ve wasted too much time on this subject already. Adios.
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