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Fans have heaped praise on former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy for speaking openly about his addiction to cocaine after retiring from football.
During a recent episode of the Ben Heath Podcast, Murphy, 47, admitted he struggled to come to terms with retirement after hanging up his boots in 2013, and as he dealt with financial problems and the breakdown of his marriage to actress Joanna Taylor, he turned to cocaine.
'I had a spell on cocaine and smoking some weed,' he said. 'The drink, I could live without it. I wasn't an alcoholic. I could sit in a house with alcohol and not drink it.
'For a while I was (addicted to cocaine), yeah. I got to the point where I thought I couldn't do things without it. Which was nonsense, of course I could.
'You manage it initially, you do it once a week, twice a week, do it an extra third day and eventually it builds up and grabs hold of you.'
Danny Murphy has spoken openly about his addiction to cocaine after retiring from football
Murphy won the League Cup twice, FA Cup and UEFA Cup with Liverpool, but struggled to come to terms with retirement
Murphy, who won two League Cups, the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup with Liverpool, appeared on talkSPORT on Wednesday morning to talk more about drug addiction, and revealed his honest opinion on the subject before he had his own issues.
'Before I had problem with myself, I did judge people,' he admitted. 'I used to think well if you've used drugs or you're depressed then you're weak, there's something wrong with you. You've got no resilience. Get a grip of yourself.'
Murphy's opinion has since changed, and he has previously written about his addiction in his column for Mail on Sunday.
Asked by talkSPORT host Jim White - who has also been honest about his own battles with alcohol
