Shocking! Bjorn Borg on cocaine addiction & cancer battle: 'So embarrassing'

Swedish tennis icon Bjorn Borg has made a profoundly idiosyncratic revelation successful his recently released autobiography Heartbeats: A Memoir, published connected Thursday, disclosing his long-hidden battles with cocaine addiction and a caller prostate crab diagnosis.The 69-year-old erstwhile satellite No.1, who dominated tennis successful the 1970s and aboriginal 1980s, confessed that his archetypal acquisition with cocaine successful the aboriginal 1980s astatine New York’s legendary nightclub Studio 54 gave him “a unreserved arsenic beardown arsenic what tennis had fixed maine successful the past.”Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!His darkest years, Borg recounts, came successful the 1990s erstwhile helium was surviving successful Milan with then-wife, Italian vocalist Loredana Bertè.

“We had atrocious influences, and… drugs and pills wrong reach. There, I was plunged into the deepest darkness,” Borg writes.The debased constituent arrived successful 1996, erstwhile Borg collapsed connected a span successful the Netherlands conscionable earlier an accumulation tournament. “When I awoke successful hospital, my begetter was lasting adjacent to me. He said nothing, it was truthful embarrassing. I was terribly ashamed,” helium told Swedish speech amusement Skavlan.

In the memoir, Borg besides reveals that helium was diagnosed with prostate crab successful September 2023.

“The hazard of it coming backmost inactive exists, and it’s thing I volition person to unrecorded with… with the anxiousness of not knowing if the crab was caught successful time,” helium wrote, adding that helium undergoes check-ups each six months.Despite his wellness challenges, Borg stressed that helium exercises daily, though helium admitted helium has not “played tennis successful six years.”The 11-time Grand Slam champion besides touched connected doping successful modern tennis, expressing interest astir inferior players and questioning Jannik Sinner’s determination to rehire fittingness manager Umberto Ferrara aft the Italian’s little suspension for a steroid violation.Borg, who retired shockingly astatine conscionable 26 aft conquering Wimbledon 5 times and the French Open six times, said his memoir is astir confronting demons, shame, and survival.