Crystal meth is typically associated with depravity and poverty; a low-class drug, if you will. So it comes as a startling surprise that Andre Agassi, the eight-time Grand Slam champion, recently admitted to using the drug for “a year or so.”
In his upcoming autobiography, entitled ‘Open’, Agassi admits he used crystal meth in 1997 and failed a drug test. The results were tossed out because he lied and said he “unwittingly” took the substance.

“If you're going to tell your story, you owe it to yourself to tell it honestly,” Agassi told PEOPLE magazine. “Especially if you're going to call it 'Open.'”

Agassi exchanged wedding rings with actress Brooke Shields in 1997. According to excerpts for his forthcoming memoir, he became jealous over Shields’ appearance on ‘Friends’. He also revealed that Brooke put a photo of Steffi Graf on the fridge to motivate herself to get in better for the wedding. Ironically, Agassi wed Graff in 2001.

Agassi divulges how he and Shields begin dating shortly after Christmas 1993 and connected by sharing their experiences with pushy parents. He also reveals that he stormed off the set of “Friends,” becoming jealous when Shields had to lick actor Matt LeBlanc's hand. “Have some more hand. I'm out of here,” wrote Agassi.

Agassi sought out Shields’ assistance during the writing. “A lot of our recollections were the same, but not the interpretations. I tried to turn a harder lens on myself than on anyone else.”

Agassi also revealed that he wore a hairpiece that nearly fell off at the 1990 French Open. The tennis star's brother was sent running around Paris to find bobby pins to keep Agassi's disintegrating spiked-mullet weave from coming off his head before a match in the 1990 French Open.

“Of course I could play without my hairpiece. But after months of derision, criticism, mockery, I'm too self-conscious,” he wrote. “Image Is Everything? What would they say if they knew? Win or lose, they wouldn't talk about my game. They'd only talk about my hair. I can close my eyes and almost hear it. And I know I can't take it.”

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