Hot! Book Says Walter Payton Abused Drugs

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) - According with a fresh book, Chicago Bears movie star Walter Payton abused painkillers throughout pensionable along with grew to be suicidal.

In "Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life regarding Walter Payton ," source Jeff Pearlman says the Hall connected with Fame managing to come back utilised a beverage connected with Tylenol in addition to Vicodin throughout retirement, kept tanks connected with nitrous oxide within his or her storage and in many cases received Ritalin out of an associate whose son has been given pills. Pearlman writes of which Payton drew the mistrust associated with pharmacists and also a warning from your criminal arrest following visiting several drugstores to possess a dentist's herpes simplex virus with regard to morphine filled.

Payton's longtime agent, Bud Holmes, will be quoted when saying "Walter seemed to be smashing his or her body with medication."

The ebook will go for sale Oct. 4. An excerpt looks during this week's Sports Illustrated.

Holmes along with Payton's professional assistant, Ginny Quirk, recall obtaining suicidal calls in any way hours during the mid-1990s, and Pearlman studies Payton has been existing besides his wife's comments Connie plus possessing extramarital relationships soon after retirement. That created a strong uncomfortable predicament at his / her 1993 Hall with Fame induction, with Connie along with his mistress attending.

Quirk will be quoted when saying it absolutely was her job and keep them apart.

"The introduction in the Pro Football Hall involving Fame should certainly the ideal moment throughout his / her life," Quirk says. "and throughout truth, it had been almost certainly the worst.. Four entire days, and Lita and Connie have been like two ships passing inside the night. If Connie was planned to help occur late, I'd make certain Lita had been there early. If Connie has been there early, Lita can be presently there late. I won't be able to describe this scary of that trip."

Payton expended many 13 seasons with the Bears plus retired since the NFL's all-time contributing rusher following 1987 season. He died at a uncommon liver ailment and also bile duct cancer tumor in 1999.

In a new statement, the particular Bears mentioned Payton's "competitive character lives having us today."

"When we take this discipline every Sunday, most people stand for the greater gamers similar to Walter whom made it simpler for make your vibrant history with our organization," the organization said. "Nothing will certainly change each of our feelings for a male you'll find that deepest esteem with regard to and pass up possessing all-around Halas Hall to the present day."