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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Howard Fendrich

Björn Borg talks cocaine, overdoses, cancer and why he quit tennis in bombshell memoir

Björn Borg's memoir, Heartbeats, opens with his 1990s hospitalisation after overdosing on “alcohol, drugs, pills – my preferred ways of self-medication”, and concludes with a prostate cancer diagnosis.

“It’s good,” Borg, 69, said in a recent video interview with the Associated Press from his home in Stockholm, "to have a good beginning and a good ending."

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