The former Heisman Trophy winner revealed in his episode of Netflix's"Untold" documentary series that he planned to commit suicide in 2016. He had recently been released by the Cleveland Browns in March that year and diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
"I had planned to do everything I wanted to do at that point in my life, spend as much money as I possibly could and then my plan was to take my life," Manziel said in his episode,."I wanted to get as bad as humanly possible to where it made sense, and it made it seem like an excuse and an out for me."
Manziel, now 30, said he used cocaine and the prescription drug OxyContin daily and bought a gun"months earlier" before he went on a"$5 million bender." But when he pulled the trigger, Manziel said the gun malfunctioned. "Still to this day, don't know what happened, but the gun just clicked on me," he said."I couldn't fix what I had done ... with the NFL, with A&M, everything at that point in time. ... The ride was over."
The episode comes out Aug. 8 and dives into the world of"Johnny Football" — from Manziel's meteoric rise at Texas A&M where he won the Heisman Trophy in 2012 to being drafted No. 22 overall by the Browns in 2014 to his eventual fall from grace that included multiple arrests and his eventual 2016 release.You think you know these stories, but you don't.