Mike Tyson recently spoke about an intimate encounter he had with a male friend and a woman who ended up passing away after being diagnosed with AIDS.
In a conversation with longtime friend Rosie Perez for Interview Magazine, Tyson expressed his that he is under divine protection, especially in light of his friends who have faced untimely deaths. “Hey, life isn’t over yet. We’re still fighting. We only make it out on the day of our death,” Tyson told Perez. “There’s no way I should be here talking to you right now. All my friends are dead.” He continued, “They OD’d, they had AIDS. Me and my friend both had sex with this girl at the same time and they both died of AIDS. I didn’t catch AIDS. Raw, too.”
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Perez reacted by saying, “That’s crazy. You have a spirit hovering over you,” to which Tyson replied, “Amen. It’s something, sister.”
During the interview, Tyson also disclosed what prompted him to accept a boxing match against YouTuber Jake Paul for Netflix. He told Perez that the hallucinogenic experience he had from smoking toad venom convinced him that God was urging him to return to the ring.
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“You rub it down until it become fine sand, and then you smoke it. Then you meet God. And this is what God told me to do.” He added that he first smoked toad venom seven years ago with the help of a shaman.