On the debut episode of the Confidence of Champions podcast, Mike Tyson reflected on the time he took a break from smoking weed, and his family had to beg him to start again.
At around the 59-minute point of the podcast, as seen above, Tyson reflected on when he was a heavy drinker and how he didn’t like what it did to him.
“When I’m drunk, I’m fucking making a fool of myself,” he said. “Listen, you get a bunch of gang members, right? You get a bunch of liquor, they’re going to kill each other. You get some weed, they start taking selfies. … That was the peace pipe, that’s why the Native Americans used it.”
He then told a story of when he took five days off from smoking weed.
“My wife and my kids would get scared,” he admitted. “‘Please smoke, Daddy.’ Not that I did anything, [I was just] too intense not high. People walking by me, just looking, ‘Wow.’ It’s just a whole different person.”
It’s no secret that Tyson is a big smoker. On an episode of his podcast Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson last year, the 59-year-old retired boxer revealed that he goes through as much as $40,000 of weed in a month.
He also previously admitted, in an interview with Joe Rogan in 2019, that he first started smoking weed when he was just ten years old.
“If I didn’t smoke, I would have a bad day. I’m a real moody guy without it,” Tyson said, per the Growth OP. “It smooths me out, like I’m a whole different person. It makes me on top of my game. ... I like who I am when I smoke. Without weed, I don't like who I am sometimes."
