They were not cries for help, but rather texts taken out of context.
Buffalo Bills defensive end Mario Williams accused his former fiancée, Erin Marouzki, of making his private texts messages to her public simply to win a lawsuit over the possession of a $785,000 diamond engagement ring.
Williams spoke after a Bills practice Monday - his first opportunity to respond to a series of texts that contained some red-flag phrases he sent to Marouzki last November. Her lawyer, Tony Buzbee, released the texts last week.
After a session in which the two sides could not come up with a resolution over ownership of the ring, Buzbee described Williams as experiencing "dramatic mood swings" throughout the engagement. And he released a series of text messages taken off Marouzki's phone to show how despondent Williams was over their breakup.
"No money in the world should leave me with suicidal thoughts," Williams wrote in one text.
In another, revealing that he took three hydrocodones that morning, the day of Buffalo's game at New England. And he planned to take two more on the plane home. Hydrocodone is classified as a narcotic, and prescribed to relieve moderate to severe pain.
Williams said the Bills team doctors prescribed the medication.
"Obviously it's just a tactic to cover up the point of the whole thing," Williams said to reporters. "It is what it is. I could really care less. All it is (is) allegations and text messages and what not, whatever information blown out of proportion. I mean, it's completely out of context."
Williams clarified his text to reporters and wondered why Marouzki waited until now to bring the texts to light, rather than raise concerns in November.
"In a moment of anger, I talk about everything, I'll tell you that. And I don't know too many people who would say they don't," he said. "Have you seen any of the notion, me needing any kind of help?"
And Williams questioned why Marouzki would bring these texts to light now, and not raise concerns about Williams immediately after he texted those comments.
"You sit here and text somebody who was supposed to mean this and that to you, and then this happens? No, it's better off," ESPN.com reported Williams as saying. "So I'm glad this is actually coming out."
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