Legendary quarterback Brett Favre has been through it all. The Green Bay Packers icon recently opened up in his podcast Bolling with Favre about his traumatic journey with substance abuse that had the Hall of Fame QB hitting rock bottom.
In an emotional tell-all, Favre admitted he wanted to end his life (via Yahoo! Sports).
“I was as low as I possibly could be. I said it’s one of two things—I die, or I flush these pills down the toilet. I sat by the toilet for two hours. Eventually, I dumped the pills in the toilet, flushed them and I almost wanted to kill myself because of doing that.”
Favre recounted his painkiller addiction that started in 1994 as he was nursing a few injuries. He was initially taking two pills a day but it came to a point where he was already consuming a month's worth of prescription in a span of 48 hours. According to the 51-year-old Favre, this caused him a couple of seizures in 1995, which eventually forced him to come clean and ultimately check himself to rehab.
“It was really not the way you want to come off of pain pills because it could kill you. I shook with cold sweats and hot sweats. Every night at nine o’clock, I just shook because that was the exact time when I took them. No matter where I was or what I was doing, I would take them.”
Brett Favre is highly regarded as an NFL great as he won a Super Bowl title, three MVP awards, got selected to the Pro Bowl 11 times, and was named a member of the 1990s All-Decade Team. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016.
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