In his new autobiography "Undisputed Truth," Mike Tyson details a life where he still "fantasizes about blowing someone's brains out," just so "he can go back to prison for the rest of his life."
The once self-professed baddest man on the planet also writes that nowadays he spends most of his time feeling as if "my whole life has been a joke."
Tyson pulls very very punches in the gripping novel, which also entails stories of his long-time drug use and how he was once forced to tell his then-wife he thought he might have AIDS, presumably from all the raunchy and unprotected sex he was having.
Even while imprisoned, Tyson writes about a life filled with so much sex, first from a regular throng of female visitors and later a prison drug counselor he gave $10,000 to so she could fix the roof of her home, "I'd just stay in my cell all day" to rest.
"I was having so much sex that I was too tired to even to go to the gym and work out," Tyson wrote. "I'd just stay in my cell all day."
Ironically enough, the one sexaul encounter that contintunes to perplex him the most is also the one that landed him behind bars. Of former beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington, Tyson writes "how do you rape someone when they come to your hotel room at two in the morning?"
Tyson also writes of once misplacing $1 million in cash he had stored in a suitcase, and how it took a staffer more than a week to find where he had left the money.
"I had had a rough night in the city and had forgotten where I left it," Tyson wrote.
Still, that pales in drama to the time he had to tell ex-wife, Monica Turner, he thought he had AIDS. The two divorced not long thereafter.
"I guess she had had enough of my fooling around because I sure did a lot of it," he wrote. Tyson also writes of first wife Robin Givens, labeling her a manipulative shrew who made him act like a trained puppy. Of Evander Holyfield, he writes he was a serial head butter with ties to steroids.
Tyson also details the sense of worthlessness he feels over squandering more than $300 million in purse winnings and to this day not being able to pay off the IRS. He likewise writes of frequently quarreling with and frequently beating former promoter Don King.
"When I think about all the horrific things that Don has done to me over the years I still feel like killing him," Tyson said.
These days, Tyson says he's back in AA after recently falling off the wagon and losing his sobriety.
"I desperately want to get well," he writes. "I have a lot of pain and I just want to heal. And I'm going to do my best to do just that. One day at a time."
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