Johnny Manziel is revealing more of himself than he ever has before. In an interview with ET’s Kevin Frazier conducted in advance of the highly anticipated release of the documentary Untold: Johnny Football on Tuesday on Netflix, the former baller, who is now 30 years old, reveals how he hit the lowest point of his life when he entertained thoughts of ending his own life.
The winner of the Heisman Trophy in 2012 said that it was “tough” for him to go through the lowest point in his life, which occurred when he was let go by the Cleveland Browns in March of 2016. Manziel pondered his career after he was released, and he questioned how he could have let himself throw away a chance that would only come around once in a lifetime.
“What do you do when you feel like you’ve wasted your talent?” This question was posed sarcastically by Manziel. What do you do when you feel as if an opportunity has passed you by? What should one do when they believe that they have placed themselves in a situation from which there is no way to get back out? [When] there is no way to climb back, and everything seems to be hopeless.”
Manziel was selected with the 22nd overall pick in the NFL Draft in 2014, and the Cleveland Browns turned to him to save their club after it had spent far too much time and seemed to have been content with their position as the worst team in the AFC North. Manziel never lived up to the hype he generated as a star at Texas A&M, despite the fact that he sometimes shown glimpses of potential. His career was immediately derailed by the fact that he threw for the same number of touchdowns (seven) as he did interceptions, and he only completed 57 percent of his throws for a meager 1,675 yards. After being let go by the Browns, Manziel played for many teams in the Canadian Football League (CFL), but it was abundantly evident to everyone that he had reached the end of his professional football career at that point.
It has been alleged that in the documentary, Manziel confesses he went on a “$5 million bender” before to trying to take his own life. According to what he states in the document, he obtained a pistol with the intention of carrying out the attempt; however, when he pressed the trigger, the gun did not work properly. According to Manziel’s comments to ET, the pressure of not being able to meet such high expectations took a toll on him, but in the end, he discovered a new viewpoint.
“Everything you read about yourself, everything you see, and the vast majority of the interactions you have in your normal day-to-day life are all variations on the theme, ‘Hey, man, you f**ked this up.'” “Hey dude, you really screwed this up,” he told me. “So I think it just took me a long time to be able to get over that and realize that there’s so much more to life than just picking up a leather ball and going out and throwing it on a Sunday,” she said. “It’s just that there’s so much more to life than just picking up a leather ball and going out and throwing it on a Sunday.”
Regarding the question of why he decided to disclose his experience at this time, Manziel has said that sufficient time has passed for him to think about what may have been.
He said, “In the past, I’ve viewed a few of the Untolds, and I found a lot of them to be really intriguing.” “I was really intrigued by a lot of them.” “And the year before, it was the 10-year anniversary from the time that I was inducted into the Heisman, Hall of Fame at Texas A&M. Throughout the years, I’ve engaged in a lot of introspection, so when the opportunity to participate in Untold arose, I was quite intrigued.
Manziel, who was previously married to Bre Tiesi of Selling Sunset until their divorce was finalized in 2021, has said that he feels a great deal of regret for the manner in which he handled himself throughout the early stages of his professional career.
“I most certainly do feel a great deal of regret. “I wish I would have been better when I was younger,” adds Manziel, who was also selected by the San Diego Padres in the Major League Baseball Draft in 2014. Manziel was a quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. “You know, I really wish I would have been able to find this out sooner in life, you know what I mean? When I think back on my life, there are a number of individuals who played important roles in getting me to where I am now, and I am grateful to them all. That is not something that I take lightly.”
Regarding his well-known nickname, “Johnny Football,” Johnny Manziel has said that he is OK with just going by his first name.
“You may call me Johnny. “Aside from watching games on the couch on a Saturday or Sunday, there isn’t much football left in my life,” he adds. “I’m just not that into it anymore.” It’s likely that ‘Johnny Football’ will be around forever. At the very least once a week, somebody will approach me and introduce themselves by calling me Johnny Football. However, for the time being it will simply be Johnny. And we’re going on with life while also attempting to tie up loose ends along that road.