Brett Favre detailed his past struggle with drug and alcohol abuse, revealing it all started when he took pain pills in 1994 for an ankle sprain.The former Green Bay Packers quarterback, 51, opened up about his ups and downs during the Tuesday, March 23, episode of his “Bolling With Favre” podcast.
He pointed to a 1994 game against the Philadelphia Eagles as the moment he “first realized I liked a pain pill.”His addiction began shortly thereafter when he got injured with a sprained ankle. “I don’t know if it was sprained enough to get pain pills.
But I remembered the effect that it had and I liked it,” he recalled. “I thought, ‘What the heck? Why not?'”Throughout that football season, Favre noted taking pain pills became “constant,”
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