I used cocaine, says Fury
Tyson Fury’s uncle and trainer Peter Fury says the boxer is receiving professional help
WORLD heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has been drinking and using cocaine to help him deal with depression, he told Rolling Stone magazine."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," he said."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 me life. I only started to take cocaine in the last few months," added the WBA and WBO champion, who said he stopped using the drug on October 1.Asked by Rolling Stone if he was clean when he was fighting, Fury said: "No drugs at all, no drugs at all. I have never ever taken a drug to help me boxing in my life. Never took a performance-enhancing drug ever."Fury was charged with a doping offence by UK Anti-Doping this year after a urine sample from February 2015 — nine m...
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