By Joiner Martínez
May 31, 2024, 16:27 PM EDT
Julio César Chávez Jr., is preparing to resume his career in Mexican boxing, after being arrested in the United States, undergoing a legal trial for illegal possession of weapons and facing his addiction to diet pills, Junior has had an improvement .
After announcing his return to the ring in a fight against Darren Till, Chávez Jr. revealed more details of what his recovery has been like in the United States, since part of the legal agreements he has is that he must take therapy to get rid of his addictions.
Despite all the help he has had from his father, Julio César Chávez González, he accepted that at some point the centers he was in caused him trauma and assured that these “confinements” triggered paranoia that complicated his addiction problem. .
Chávez Jr. confessed that his addiction problem is not recent, but that since he was crowned World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight champion, it was at that point that the problems began.
“I was already bad for a while, I was already taking pills to lose weight, I was getting bigger as a champion, all these problems came,” he shared in an interview on TUDN.
But, what triggered all the controversy he had in California—and the controversial videos he uploaded to social networks attacking his father—were due to the depression he had every time he left the rehabilitation centers and annexes in which his father put him. .
He accepted that those experiences were traumatic for him, he did not detract from the help his father gave him, but he did insist that those were not the correct ways. It should be noted that the César of boxing was always aware of the health of his son.
“The lockdowns came in Mexico, which caused me trauma, to be honest. “I know that my father always wanted to help me but it was not the way, being locked up, without seeing my family… I went out and had problems with my wife because I was not there and that I was using again,” he said. .
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