Agassi’s New Book Discusses Past Drug Use November 5
Andre Agassi has admitted in his new autobiography that in the past he used drugs and even lied when he failed a drug test during his career. When a drug test came back positive from the Association of Tennis Players in 1997 the tennis star wrote a note alleging that a former assistant often spiked his soda with methamphetamine and that he (Agassi) had unwittingly ingested one of these spikes sodas. The lie worked and he went on to continue his career. While Agassi’s assistant is said to have regularly spiked his drinks like this by the star the drug was in his system due to his own use.
The lie came as a result of Agassi’s fear of losing the status he’d gained as a tennis player. The resulting guilt may have played a part in what would turn out to be the player’s worst year where he failed to get the title, and missed both Wimbledon and the French and Australian Opens. His playing that year brought him to the low level of 141 at one point in the year. Slim, the assistant that Agassi blamed for his allegedly false positive that year was the source of Agassi’s first use of the drug according to the book.
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