Andre Agassi Used Meth While Playing Tennis
Andre Agassi has a new book coming out and in the book he talks about his addiction to crystal meth. He says that he only used it for about a year and that he gave it up as easily as he started. Uh huh. At one point that year he failed a drug test but blamed it all on his assistant Slim and tennis' governing body said, "ok" and let him keep playing.
"Then I come to the central lie of the letter," Agassi writes. "I say that recently I drank accidentally from one of Slim's spiked sodas, unwittingly ingesting his drugs. I ask for understanding and leniency and hastily sign it: Sincerely."
The ATP said today that it doesn't have a policy of favoritism and that no one person could have just let him off the hook like that. It is obvious though that someone did. Tennis is a sport of individuals and if those individuals aren't playing then attendance goes down so if you are a star then you get a pass. If you are Joe Nobody and ranked 500 in the world you get suspended.
The thing is I don't actually believe Andre. I believe he used drugs in 1997, but I have a hard time believing he just used for a short time. Crystal meth is not usually the first drug someone picks up. It is way down the line after several others and it is not an easy addiction to break. I'm wondering if he is figuring that if he admits a little the rest will go away. The problem is now that people will dig and I bet they find some more.
