Tour de France winner and five-time Olympic champion Sir Bradley Wiggins says he became a cocaine addict in the years after his career.
The 45-year-old Briton told the Observer,about the extent of the addiction he developed after his retirement from cycling in 2016, and explained how his family members feared for him.
"There were times my son thought I was going to be found dead in the morning," said Wiggins.
"I was a functioning addict. People wouldn't realise - I was high most of the time for many years."
Wiggins won Olympic gold medals on the track at the Athens, Beijing and Rio de Janeiro Games, and also won the road time trial at London 2012, two weeks after becoming the first British rider to win the Tour de France.
Since his retirement, Wiggins has spoken about his father's jealousy and being groomed by a coach as a child, while he was also declared bankrupt in June 2024.
Wiggins revealed how disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, who has reportedly offered to pay for Wiggins' therapy, has helped him during his recovery.
He said the American, who was stripped of seven Tour de France titles for using performance-enhancing drugs, had "worried about me for a long time" and that Armstrong speaks to Wiggins' son Ben - also a professional cyclist - "a lot" about his father.
