Michael Easter

And now that I was in a different position...

with a supportive partner and two kids.

So basically once you got out of that relationship, that started to fix a lot of things.

Then you found someone who... Well, removing the toxicity helps.

That helps remove the poison.

That does help.

That helps.

But I also had to do a lot of soul searching.

I went, after I retired, I basically packed my car and I just started driving.

I was in Las Vegas.

I just literally got in the car with my little dog and I headed towards the coast and then I drove up the coastline.

And for the first time in my life, I really just tried to see what came to me, like what spoke to me and what did I want?

What did I want at that moment?

What choice did I want to make?

And I just allowed myself to be a very free person.

I had been so...

diligent and regimented and tried to be as perfect as I could be with every single meal I had eaten down to every single, you know, two, three, four workouts a day.

I just been so locked down for so many years of my life, basically all of my twenties.

That I didn't know how to just be a free bird.

And so when I retired after that fight, I remember hitting a very dark moment where I was on to contemplating taking my own life.