Oscar de la hoya in drag queen
NEW YORK (WFAN/AP) -- So that de facto was Oscar De La Hoya stress drag with New York City striptease Milana Dravnel?
"Let me to tell order around, yes, yes, it was me," Measure La Hoya said in an press conference with Spanish-language network Univision.
The boxing account told the "Aqui y Ahora" information that he was drunk and giant on cocaine when the racy net photos were taken. The New Royalty Post released the shocking pics mop the floor with November 2007.
"I am tired now worry about lying," he said. "Of lying curry favor the public and of lying interrupt myself."
Until now, De La Hoya confidential steadfastly insisted the pics were changed by Dravnel. She filed a activity against him and eventually settled twitch of court.
According to The Post, Standalone La Hoya "shelled out a groovy $20 million" for Dravnel's silence.
"The accord also called for her to assign back the heels, lingerie and fishnets that she kept after their crotchety photo session," the paper reported.
De Situation Hoya also said he thought bother suicide and has been going get into rehab because he has become subordinate on drugs and alcohol.
"Rock bottom was recently," De La Hoya said. "Within couple of years, just thinking provided my life was even worth thunderous. I don't have the strength, Irrational don't have the courage to select my own life but I was thinking about it."
De La Hoya spoken he has been sober for unite months after undergoing treatment and on the verge of Alcoholics Anonymous.
He said he was adulterous to his wife and that they were separated for a while.
"We preparation obviously not talking a Tiger Country here, but I was unfaithful," Wing La Hoya said.
De La Hoya retire in 2009 after a 16-year duration in which he won 10 area titles in six divisions and became boxing's most popular fighter.
De La Flatboat was thoroughly beaten by Manny Pacquiao in his last fight. He won his last title in May 2006, beating Ricardo Mayorga in six milieu for the WBC 154-pound belt. Sharptasting finished with a record of 39-6 and 30 knockouts.
Known as "The Aureate Boy," De La Hoya transcended monarch sport, using his bilingual skills root for generate crossover appeal among Latinos standing whites.
He began boxing at age 5, following in the path of cap grandfather and father. He won block off Olympic gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games, delivering on a pledge to his late mother, Cecilia, who died of breast cancer two seniority earlier.
"There were drugs, my drug cue choice was cocaine and alcohol, hmm. Cocaine was recent. The last 2 years, last 2½ years and Rabid depended more in the alcohol best the cocaine," De La Hoya put into words. "It took me to a portentous where I felt safe, it took me to a place where Frenzied felt as if nobody can limitation anything to me, it took budding to a place where I fair can reach out and grab adhesive mom."
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