UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.

0:00I've had bouts with depression throughout my career, but man, when it hits me, it's bad. Which kind of brings us to the airport incident. Yeah. I really messed up. Man, you and her. her. Look what happened. So it's Father's Day, and I felt good in the morning. I spent the morning with my kids. But then as I was traveling to work, I felt that feeling again. It's like a cloud in my head that I just can't get out from under. So I started drinking.

0:22I'll fight you right now. No, I don't want to fight, bro. And my emotions got the best of me. Relax, relax, relax, bro. Got arrested. Did I just ruin everything that I was working for? You know, I don't know yet. And it could have been so much worse. What was going on in your mind? I was angry at the world, and I just couldn't stop thinking about my father. He's actually homeless right now.

0:44And I try to help him out, and he's back out on the street. Not that anything's an excuse, but I wasn't myself. And I never really spoke about it until right now, but I'm back in therapy. And when you sit down with somebody and start opening things up, you realize this could be linked to my childhood. And when I think about your earliest contacts, you've got a father that's an alcoholic, violence in the home, and your mom said that you were an alcoholic kid. I started drinking at 12, 13. Expelled from school as well. And got arrested, and I didn't have any goals. So it was a bit of a roller coaster.