What do you get when Mike Tyson, fresh from a visit to the dentist, makes an unscheduled appearance at a Las Vegas radio station?
Pure gold.
Tyson, who doesn’t seem to hold anything back anymore, joined Gridlock on ESPN Radio Las Vegas for an impromptu interview, to discuss, among other things, how he tried to clean himself up after the death of his 4-year-old daughter last year, what life was like after ballooning up to 350 lbs., and the real reason behind his cameo in “The Hangover”.
Here’s a few of the more interesting portions from the interview, courtesy of Sports Radio Interviews (click on the link for the full transcript)…
On being in the Hangover:
“I was doing that to supply my drug habit. I’m sorry I’m coming at you guys like this… I said, ‘Wow, This is going to be really good. We’re going to sell this stuff on 42nd street on bootleg and make a lot of money.’ This is my best thinking on drugs… It wasn’t that way. It was an international success.
On his former lifestyle and women:
“It was everything goes. Just being out there, being Mike, not realizing who I am. The next thing I know I got people saying, ‘Yo man when are you going to pay for these drugs?’ I said, ‘Well you know. What’ the problem? I ain’t got the money. I can’t pay you.’ And he said, ‘Well I got to pay somebody.’ And I said, ‘Tell the guy you got to pay to come talk to me.’ Listen, I’m Mike Tyson, international superstar, and I’m robbing a drug dealer. What happened? What happened to my life? I’m an international star and now I’m shaking down a drug dealer. I’ve really came a long way, huh? I’ve really came a long way… My personal life is so isolated right now. I don’t go anywhere unless I’m invited. If I don’t have a reason being there, I’m not going to go. I enjoy being with my children and my wife now. That’s the only the that keeps me grounded’
And on the worst part about being 350 pounds:
“It was hard to wipe my butt… I was sweating like some kind of guy from a moon project or something. It was crazy… All the clothes you see me with now are clothes that I had 15, 20 years ago. (Host: Did you have the back fat and everything?) Oh man the back fat. The back fat is when it’s so bad, your ass looks like a board. It’s like boom. The back and ass is one. It’s not like the back goes down and the back protrudes. No. It’s just straight down. And then girls were telling me I looked great. It has to be a money deal. It had to be.”
I don’t know about the drugs, or the women, or even the acting, but I’m right there with you on the back fat Mike.
