Mike Tyson just admitted to using drugs during his boxing career to deal with pain.
While appearing on Tuesday’s episode of the “Katie Miller Podcast,” the heavyweight champion said he briefly took the powerful painkiller fentanyl while competing in the late 1990s.
“It was a painkiller, and I used to use it to patch up my toe,” Tyson said of substance, which is a synthetic opioid that is estimated to be 50 times more potent than heroin.
Comparing the effects and the withdrawal symptoms of both drugs, the boxer said, “It was like heroin. Once it wears off and you take the Band-Aid off, you start withdrawing, throwing up, just like if you were on heroin.”
Tyson revealed that he used the substance “quite a few times” and only stopped after learning that it could have ended his high-level boxing career.
