Mike Tyson was high on drugs during some of his major fights and used a fake penis filled with someone else’s urine to fool drug-testers, he has admitted for the first time.
The former world heavyweight boxing champion disclosed in a new tell-all memoir that he spent a significant stretch of his turbulent career addicted to cocaine and marijuana.
“I was a full-blown cokehead,” Tyson wrote in Undisputed Truth, published on Tuesday. Recalling his shock 2004 loss to Britain’s Danny Williams, he revealed he was taking drugs until shortly before the fight.
Tyson, now 47 and retired, described his ferocious appetite for drink and drugs that dated back to trying cocaine at the age of 11 and first being given alcohol as a baby in New York.
