Manziel states he attempted suicide after ‘bender’

• Jake Trotter, ESPN Staff WriterAug 4, 2023, 12:26 PM ET

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In a new documentary, Johnny Manziel says he attempted suicide after the Cleveland Browns cut him in 2016.

In Netflix’s “Untold: Johnny Football,” the 2012 Heisman Prize winner said that following the 2015 season he started using OxyContin and drug daily, according to several reports, and dropped from 215 pounds in January to 175 in September.Manziel dealt with a misdemeanor attack charge after being implicated of hitting and threatening his then-girlfriend in January 2016. His lawyers reached a contract with authorities to dismiss the charge upon set conditions.The Browns cut Manziel in March 2016. Manziel stated in the documentary, according to numerous reports, that he was later on detected with bipolar illness, that he declined to go into rehabilitation and that he started self-sabotaging, going on a” $5 million bender”prior to attempting to end his life.” I had actually planned to do everything I wished to do at that point in my life, invest as much money as I potentially might and then my plan was to take my life,”Manziel said in the documentary, according to numerous reports.”I wanted to get as bad as humanly possible to where it made sense, and it made it appear like a reason and an out for me.”

Manziel said he had actually bought a weapon “months earlier” with the plan to use it to carry out death by suicide, however when he shot the weapon malfunctioned.

“Still to this day, do not know what took place. But the gun just clicked on me,” he said in the documentary, according to several reports.Manziel’s relationship with his household ended up being strained in part due to the fact that he declined to look for treatment. After the suicide effort, he left Los Angeles and returned to his household’s house in Texas.” It’s been a long, long roadway, and I don’t understand if it’s been fantastic or it’s been bad– that’s type of still up for dispute,”his father, Paul Manziel, stated in the documentary, according to several reports.”However we’re blessed. And he’s still with us. And we can heal all the fences still. I think Johnny’s got a lot much better days coming than what he’s had. “Manziel was a first-round choice of the Browns in 2014 after a standout profession at Texas A&M.”Untold: Johnny Football”is scheduled for release on Netflix on Tuesday

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