Boxing legend Nigel Benn tried to kill himself after quitting the ring – before finding God and turning his life around. The legendary British fighter, nicknamed the Dark Destroyer, said he was hopelessly addicted to sex and drugs in the late 1990s.
Benn – who won world titles at middleweight and super-middleweight – admitted cheating on his second wife Carolyne for 16 years.
He told a newspaper: “My addictions were drugs and women. I’m not going to hide behind fluffy words. I was weak. “Carolyne was the love of my life, but I never showed her that love.
As a husband and a father, I was a failure. “I tried to commit suicide – but even that failed. “Maybe the Lord was already looking out for me. “Home life was difficult.
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