Wasim Akram’s explosive revelation: ‘I used to be hooked on cocaine, was visiting Karachi pretending it was work’

In his upcoming autobiography Sultan: A Memoir, Wasim Akram discusses his battle with cocaine dependancy after his enjoying profession ended.

After an 18-year worldwide profession, Akram retired in 2003 as Pakistan’s main wicket-taker in each Check and ODI cricket, however he continued to journey the world on commentary and training assignments. He stated his cocaine dependancy started after he retired and ended with the dying of his first spouse Huma in 2009.

Following his retirement, Akram, now 56, admitted to his cocaine dependancy and revealed that he tried rehab however was unsuccessful.

“I favored to indulge myself; I favored to get together,” Akram writes in his upcoming e book ‘Sultan: A Memoir’, as quoted by occasions.co.uk.

“South Asia’s fame tradition is all-consuming, seductive, and corrupting. You may go to 10 events in a single evening, and a few folks do. And it price me dearly. My units had turn out to be vices,” he stated. 

“Worst of all, I developed a cocaine dependancy. It started innocently sufficient once I was supplied a line at a celebration in England; my use grew steadily extra severe, to the purpose the place I felt I wanted it to perform,” Akram defined.

“It made me unstable. It made me misleading. Huma, I do know, was typically lonely at the moment …she would discuss of her want to maneuver to Karachi, to be nearer her mother and father and siblings. I used to be reluctant. Why? Partly as a result of I favored going to Karachi alone, pretending it was work when it was really about partying, typically for days at a time.

“Huma ultimately discovered me out, discovering a packet of cocaine in my pockets . . . ‘You need assistance.’ I agreed. It was getting out of hand. I could not management it. One line would turn out to be two, two would turn out to be 4; 4 would turn out to be a gram, a gram would turn out to be two. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t eat. I grew inattentive to my diabetes, which induced me complications and temper swings. Like lots of addicts, a part of me welcomed discovery: the secrecy had been exhausting.”

He additionally revealed that the rehab in Lahore didn’t work and was as an alternative a extra traumatic expertise. He stated the physician was extra involved with “manipulating households than treating sufferers” and that he relapsed into his previous habits after leaving the rehab facility.

Huma’s tragic dying from a uncommon fungal an infection ultimately modified every part for Akram. “Huma’s final selfless, unconscious act was curing me of my drug drawback. That lifestyle was over, and I’ve by no means appeared again,” Akram stated.

Additionally Learn: ‘Watching the final three overs once more’: Google CEO Sundar Pichai shuts Pakistani troll in type