Why I took cocaine – Tyson Fury

Britain’s world heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury, has been drinking and using cocaine to help him deal with depression, he told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview released on Tuesday.
Fury said: “I’ve been out drinking, Monday to Friday to Sunday, and taking cocaine.
“I can’t deal with it (depression) and the only thing that helps me is when I get drunk out of me mind.
“I’ve done lots of cocaine. Lots of it. Why shouldn’t I take cocaine?
“It’s my life isn’t it? I can do what I want … That ain’t a performance enhancing drug.
“I never took other drugs, ever, in my life.
“I only started to take cocaine in the last few months.” |
The Eagle online News reports that Tyson Fury was the former WBA and WBO champion, who said he stopped using the drug on October 1.
Fury’s representatives were not immediately available to comment when contacted by Reuters.
ESPN reported last week that Fury, 28, had tested positive for cocaine, citing a leaked letter sent by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency.
VADA declined to comment and Reuters was unable to verify the details of the report.
Asked by Rolling Stone if he was clean when he was fighting, Fury said: “No drugs at all, no drugs at all.”
He said: “I have never ever taken a drug to help me boxing in my life.
“Never took a performance enhancing drug ever.”
Earlier this year, Fury was charged with a doping offence by UK Anti-Doping after a urine sample from February 2015.
This happened nine months before he beat Vladimir Klitschko to win the WBA and WBO world titles – showed traces of the banned stimulant nandrolone.
He said: “If I tested positive in February 2015 for drugs why let me fight the long reigning champion and leave him of all his belts in November?
“Why not strip me in February?”
It was 40-year-old Klitschko’s first defeat since 2004.