"What I do know is that I’ve started reading more about drugs as I’ve gotten older, and what I’ve read has made me think, ‘Man, I did a lot of shrooms when I was like 13 and 14 years old — dozens of times at a formative age.’ It’s a real consciousness-expanding drug, so maybe it’s had pretty deep effects."

"It's just so ironic when people see me ... they want me to curse them out, they want me to grab my crotch and they want me to be that tough guy," Tyson said in 2006. "I want to change, I want to run away from that guy but everybody always pulls that guy back out of me."

"I believe this is good for the world," he told Reuters. "If you put 10 people in a room that don’t like each other and give them some psychedelics, they’ll be taking pictures with each other. Put 10 people in a room who owns the rights to mike tyson life story don’t like each other and give them some liquor, and they’ll be shooting everybody. That’s real talk."

Nothing. They talked a bit, we hugged each other, and everyone went their separate ways. I don’t see nobody. I’m with my wife all the time! I’m with my family. That world is no longer part of my life. I’m more of a family man now. This is my life right here . I do work with it, for example with my podcast, but it’s nothing like before.

The boxing Hall of Famer has long been a user of psilocybin mushrooms, among various other hallucinogenic drugs. Magic mushrooms, as they’re more commonly called, can cause hallucinations and even an altered perception of time and space. In the medical world, psilocybin mushrooms are used to treat depression and anxiety and manage addiction.

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson’s highly anticipated fight against Jake Paul is rescheduled for November 15 in Arlington, Texas. The sanctioned eight-round match against Paul, 27, will stream on Netflix and mark Tyson’s first competitive bout since June 2005.

Tyson’s massive success in the ring was often accompanied by controversy away from it. He has served time in prison and jail on multiple occasions after being convicted on sexual assault, physical assault, and drug charges.

After leaving the ring, Tyson found a new level of celebrity through a number of notable movie anTV show appearances. In 2009, he had a memorable cameo in the hit comedy The Hangover, starring Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms. The positive reception to his appearance opened the door to more acting opportunities. Tyson soon landed guest spots on the TV series Entourage, How I Met Your Mother, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

"I knew from the start that I'd get no justice. I wasn't being tried in New York or Los Angeles; we were in Indianapolis, Indiana, historically one of the strongholds of the Ku Klux Klan. I had been found guilty by a jury of my "peers," only one of whom was Black.

The life that he has created almost from scratch over the last two years has been defined at least as much by what Tyson wants to avoid — old haunts, old habits, old temptations and old hangers-on — as by what he wants to embrace. One of the few links between his tumultuous past and his more tranquil present are his homing pigeons. He has been raising them since he was a picked-on fat little kid with glasses growing up in some of Brooklyn’s poorest neighborhoods — first Bedford Stuyvesant, then Brownsville — with an alcoholic, promiscuous mother given to violent outbursts, which included scalding a boyfriend with boiling water. ("He had a tough mother," recalls David Malone, a childhood friend. "We knew to stay away from her.") Although he has turned down requests to do a reality show, Tyson agreed to participate in a six-part docudrama about his pigeons called "Taking On Tyson," that started being shown on Animal Planet on March 6.

He’s now the subject of the new Hulu limited series "Mike," which premiered on Aug. 25. The show was created by Steve Rogers, the screenwriter behind the 2017 Tonya Harding biopic "I, Tonya." "Mike" unfolds in retrospect as Tyson (wonderfully portrayed by the "Moonlight" star Trevante Rhodes) tells his life story at a 2017 performance of his one-man show. In the flashback scenes, Tyson, ever the impishly unreliable narrator, frequently addresses the camera with winking asides. Like "I, Tonya," "Mike" attempts a tricky balance of irreverent humor, social commentary and shocking violence — prompting a few jarring tonal shifts, particularly when it moves into Tyson’s alleged domestic abuse and his 1992 rape conviction. (Tyson himself has denounced the series.)

Spicer has reportedly maintained her innocence. According to the New York Post, she "found out a week before entering prison she was pregnant with Tyson's child." Her and Tyson's daughter, Milan, was born after her release.

As part of his cleaning-up campaign, he has been adhering to a strict vegan diet for nearly two years, explaining that he doesn’t want anything in him "that’s going to enrage me — no processed food, no meat." He says that he can no longer abide the smell of meat even on someone’s breath and has dropped 150 pounds since he weighed in at 330 in 2009. "I’ve learned to live a boring life and love it," he declares, sounding more determined than certain. "I let too much in, and look what happened. . . . I used to have a bunch of girls and some drugs on the table. A bunch of people running around doing whatever."