In the wake of his admission that he took crystal meth, comes an even more shocking admission from former tennis player Andre Agassi.
An admission so shocking that it is bound to rock the very foundations of Western Civilization.
Get ready for it. Here it comes…
His mullet was a wig.
Former Wimbledon champion Andre Agassi – famous as a young tennis star for his wild locks – has revealed wearing a lion-mane-style mullet wig during the 1990s to hide his baldness.
In his new book, the tennis legend admitted to taking crystal meth periodically for “a year or so” during his career, and also reveals that he wore a hairpiece that nearly fell off at the 1990 French Open – and he duly lost to Ecuador’s Andres Gomez.
The tennis star’s brother was sent running around Paris to find bobby pins to keep Agassi’s disintegrating spiked-mullet weave from coming off his head before the 1990 match.
“Of course I could play without my hairpiece. But after months of derision, criticism, mockery, I’m too self-conscious,” he wrote.
“Image is everything. What would they say if they knew? Win or lose, they wouldn’t talk about my game. They’d only talk about my hair. I can close my eyes and almost hear it. And I know I can’t take it.”
Here’s a reminder of the wig he wore to prevent “derision, criticism, mockery”
Now that’s what I call a flawed strategy.
And speaking of flawed strategies:
The book reveals how [Agassi’s ex-wife Brooke] Shields put a photo of Steffi Graf – now married to Agassi – on the fridge for motivation to get in better shape before their wedding.
“It’s a photo of the perfect woman, she says,” Agassi wrote.
“The perfect woman with the perfect legs: the legs Brooke wants.”
