“Blue Nose” and “Bleeding” – Mike Tyson Narrates Scary Case of Drug Overdose

Mike Tyson’s involvement with drugs has often been a matter of public discussion. To a significant degree, drugs marred the career and life of Mike Tyson. Not only Tyson, but some of his close friends and contemporaries also fell victim to drugs. To name one, we have Tyrell Biggs.

In the book ‘The Rise of Mike Tyson, Heavyweight’, author William F. McNeil, in chapter  3, titled ‘The Birth of a Boxer’ even mentioned the story of a friend who had offered “the Catskill boxer the benefit of his mistakes” of doing drugs. To quote directly from McNeil, the friend’s exact and concluding words to Tyson were, “Stay away from drugs or you’ll k*ll yourself.”

In the recent episode of Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson, alongside his lifelong therapist Seano, Tyson answered if he had ever been to a situation where he almost died from substance abuse.

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The following is what Tyson told to everyone’s surprise in the room:

“Ask my wife how many times I OD’d. Cold ice on me, blue nose, bleeding, all f***ed up. Fat, bleeding, pissing on myself.”

The shadow of drugs in the life of Mike Tyson

Drugs have often stayed near Mike Tyson. The former heavyweight champion’s late mother, Lorna Tyson, who would go by Lorna Kirkpatrick following her relationship with Jimmy Kirkpatrick, earned herself a reputation for excessively depending on alcohol. According to Tyson, his biological father, Jimmy Kirkpatrick, was a drug dealer and a p**p.

Frequently, Lorna’s boyfriends would bring liquor and cigarettes to her apartment and some of them would even physically abuse her. However, later in his career, Mike Tyson realized the destructiveness of drugs. After the Joe Frazier fight, Tyson took a working vacation.

In New York City, in collaboration with the FBI, Tyson even shot an anti-drug television commercial. Even in 1985, while chasing the title, which then belonged to Michael Spinks, Tyson took part in various anti-drug campaigns.

Again, to quote from the book of McNeil (Page – 119), Tyson, trying to be a role model, said, “I wanna help other kids go straight. Kids shouldn’t be involved with drugs. They should be involved with academics, school, sports.”

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What do you have to say about Tyson’s involvement with drugs? Do you think Tyson is a role model? In addition, what do you make of Mike Tyson’s overdose comment? Let us know in the comments.