Michael Phelps discusses his drug use
Michael Phelps is still answering questions about his marijuana use. Phelps was photographed smoking marijuana from a bong during a party, and the photos surfaced in tabloid.
Matt Lauer asked Phelps about the incident during the “The Today Show” March 13 on NBC.
Here are some excerpts from the interview.
PHELPS: “It was an awful judgment. And, really, the people I hurt is my family, clearly, my friends, the close people around me and most importantly, the fans. And I realize that that hurt a lot of people.”
LAUER: “When you first saw the picture, when you first laid eyes on it and realized what it was a picture of, did you calculate at that point the fallout? Did you start to think how damaging this could be to you personally and your career?”
PHELPS: “It’s not about money to me. The contract side of things, yeah, I was disappointed. But I think the biggest thing is who I hurt the most. Like, if I lost money, okay. It’s not an issue with me.”
LAUER: “Were you smoking pot?”
PHELPS: “It was a bad mistake. I mean, we all know what you and I are talking about. It’s a stupid mistake. You know, bad judgment. And it’s something that I have to, and I want to teach other people not to make that mistake.”
PHELPS: “I mean, we were just celebrating, honestly. There was probably two or three people there I didn’t know. It was a very small group. Six or seven people probably total in the whole house. Like nothing major. You know, not like a giant college house party. It was nothing like that. It was just a small group and we were just sitting around and celebrating.”
LAUER: “Were you aware that anyone had taken a photo that night? Is that, maybe, a lesson to be learned here? That not everybody’s your friend?”
PHELPS: “I’ll say that there are a lot of people out there who want to take advantage of any situation they have. I trusted my friends who were there about who they were. And clearly they weren’t trusted people. Sometimes you learn the hard way.”
PHELPS: “I had no idea really what to do. I knew that I’d made a mistake and made a bad judgment. And I know that when you do make a mistake you’re responsible for all of the consequences. And I was willing to accept the fact that I did make a mistake.”
Now that Phelps has given an in-depth interview about this topic, hopefully the public will be able to forgive and forget and move on.
The so called “friend” who sold that picture to the tabloid for money is a low-life. I would never do that to someone I called a friend.
Hopefully, Phelps can recover from this embarrassment and bring home more gold medals.
Tim Henley
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