American sports icon Deion Sanders reveals the lowest point of his life

NFL and MLB superstar Deion Sanders was sleeping with three women at the same time — but his life couldn’t have been worse.

Deion Sanders’ career was simply extraordinary.

American sports icon Deion Sanders can’t pinpoint the exact date when he hit rock bottom, but he remembers feeling lonely in a bed with multiple female partners.

“Rock bottom for me was laying between two and three women at a time, but you get up unsatisfied. Rock bottom for me … yes, I was bleeding,” the Hall of Famer recently said on Paula Faris’ Journeys of Faith podcast.

“Laying right beside the person who said they love you, but she didn’t even know you was in pain. That was rock bottom for me,” the 51-year-old said.

Sanders, who juggled a professional baseball career in the MLB at the same time he was playing in the NFL, announced his engagement to longtime girlfriend Tracey Edmonds in February and recalled how his calls for help were seemingly ignored as people only saw his “Prime Time” persona.

When Deion Sanders hit the field he was “Prime Time”.

“I was crying out to people. But, they couldn’t hear you because they saw Prime. They saw my character. The character I created, not the character of a man. They saw the character I created — that was Prime,” Sanders said.

Sanders, whose storeyed career included stops with the 49ers, Cowboys, Falcons, and Ravens, said he wanted to end it all, driving his vehicle off the road and falling 12m off a cliff.

“I opened my eyes and I was still alive,” he said.

Sanders previously opened up about his troubling times in his memoir, Power, Money and Sex: How Success Almost Ruined My Life.

This article first appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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