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Fame-driven Mike Tyson reveals biggest drug in world is the ‘camera’ despite lifetime battling cocaine addiction
MIKE TYSON revealed the biggest drug in world is the ‘camera’ – despite his prior battle with cocaine addiction.
Tyson burst onto the scene in 1986 becoming the youngest heavyweight champion of all time aged just 20.
But he admitted to struggling with the fame and fortune that came with it as he lost his prime athletic years to substance abuse.
Now, aged 54 and free from cocaine and alcohol, Tyson opened up on the danger of being fame-driven and too egotistical.
He said on his podcast: “I think the biggest narcotic in the world is just this camera, I think that beats sugar.
“Yeah, great, smart people just couldn’t stop loving themselves too much.”
Tyson, who spent three-year in prison, started in 1992, for a rape he still fiercely denies, admitted to using drugs up until and after his 2005 retirement.
But following the launch of his Hotboxin podcast in 2019, the celebrated puncher stopped taking cocaine and drinking alcohol.
It allowed him to dramatically transform his body at the start of 2020 as he announced a shock comeback.
Tyson later went on to draw with fellow icon Roy Jones Jr, 52, over eight exhibition rounds.
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Despite managing to return to boxing and living on the straight and narrow, Tyson’s years of seeking fame almost brought him to the brink of death.
He recalled: “This is a drug, man. I got so caught up with this stuff – almost killed myself.
“Thinking I was somebody really special. You know, really, really, thinking I’m really special.
“I had to have – what’s that s*** called? Preferential treatment. I was thinking I had to do that stuff.”
Mike Tyson battled a cocaine addiction up until 2019[/caption]
Mike Tyson made a comeback in 2020 after transforming his body[/caption]
