Bjorn Borg, a legend of Swedish tennis, talks about his struggles with cocaine addiction and prostate cancer in an autobiography that was released on Thursday.
The 69-year-old former tennis player reveals in his memoir, Heartbeats: A Memoir, that he battled “his demons” for a number of years of addiction.
He described his first encounter with cocaine at the renowned New York nightclub Studio 54 as “the first time I tried cocaine,” describing a rush as strong as what tennis had previously given him.
The early 1990s, when he married Italian singer Loredana Berte, were the worst of his difficulties.
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“We had bad influences, and there were drugs and pills nearby. He relates how he was plunged into the darkest place there.
Just before a tournament for an exhibition, he fell on a bridge in the Netherlands in 1996.
His father was standing next to him when he awoke in the hospital.
While appearing on the interview program Skavlan on SVT, Borg recalled that he had spoken no, that it was embarrassing.
“I felt incredibly sorry.”
He also details his diagnosis of prostate cancer in his book in September 2023.
According to Borg, “I will have to deal with the risk of it coming back for a while with the anxiety of not knowing… if the cancer was caught in time.”
To prevent the cancer from returning, he needs to have his annual checkup every six months.
He admitted that he hadn’t “played tennis in six years” in his Skavlan appearance, insisting that he was getting exercise every day.
Before retiring from tennis at the age of 26, he won the Wimbledon five times and the French Open six times.
When asked about doping in the sport, he responded, “I know it exists among juniors.”
Despite the fact that the two had parted ways after the Italian world number two tested positive for an anabolic steroid that resulted in a three-month suspension, Borg explained how he had resumed working with his former fitness instructor, Umberto Ferrara.
He fired his fitness instructor, one of his trainers. Then he hired the same fitness instructor again once things started to settle down. That is incredibly strange to me. Borg continued, “I don’t know more.”
Source: Channels TV
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