Hank Baskett sat down for an interview with People magazine this week and admitted that he had sunk into a deep depression in the days leading up to the cheating scandal that nearly cost him his marriage to Kendra Wilkinson.
“I feel into what happens to a lot of professional athletes who change careers,” Baskett said. “It hit me, and it hit me hard. My biggest insecurity was looking like a failure. I made it to the NFL, I was a smart kid, I was the A student. … I was drinking like I had never drank before. And I was buying weed here and there. It wasn’t to get high or baked out of my mind. It was to calm my stress.”
Now, though, Baskett says he’s in a much better place.
“I see what my path is now,” he added. “I’m not wandering around aimlessly. I have a career. And my family is complete.”
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