Johnny Manziel has opened up in detail about how NBA legend LeBron James put in efforts to help him in Cleveland and then despite the efforts, let the NBA star down along Skip Bayless.
This happened while they were playing in Cleveland. This was revealed during Manziel’s appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s popular ‘Club Shay Shay’ podcast.
He opened up by saying;
“I remember, this is how bad off I was whenever I was in Cleveland, LeBron would text me every week to come over to the house and watch a game or play poker with the boys and just tried to be there, and I was so depressed for the first time in my life that even my biggest role model and inspiration in my life couldn’t get me out of bed to come and hang out with him.
“When I went to the Cavs games I went. I was in, I was out. I didn’t really grasp and latch on to him in a way that I should have. And he tries to take me under his wing, and I’m just kind of nudging it away because of where my mental is and being just fully depressed, and where I was in my life. Is that an excuse? Absolutely not, because at the end of the day, the respect that I should have for them, giving me everything, should trump all else.”
Manziel also talked about letting down the likes of Hall of Famer Joe Thomas and rapper Drake.
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“It’s tough. It’s embarrassing,” he said. “It’s embarrassing to have been the guy that have let down some overall really great athletes in my time and in my generation. It’s something I carry hopefully with my head high right now but at the same time, internally, I know it eats me alive because they did more for me than I had gave in return to them.
“And what a shallow kind of selfish way of life that I was living at that point in time and I have a lot regret, like, I regret wasting a couple of Joe Thomas’ last years in Cleveland. I regret disrespecting LeBron and not making sure what it meant to me. Showing him that I give a F- enough to just do what’s right. To listen to Mav and listen to the team they built around me.”
Johnny Manziel has obviously learned his lessons the hard way and I hope he is now a changed person ready to appreciate the efforts of the people who have his back.
He goes on to say he also let Drake and many others who believed in him.
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