Midnight Mania! Gordon Reveals Heroin Use and Intervention at Cerrone’s BMF Ranch

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Jared Gordon’s UFC 282 clash with Paddy Pimblett was the highest-profile fight of his entire career by a considerable margin. He lived up to the moment, outplaying Pimblett for the majority of three rounds in the eyes of everyone but the three watching judges. Besides costing Gordon his biggest victory to date, the decision was so controversial that it inspired new regulations.

Prior to “The Baddy” scandal, Gordon was perhaps best known for overcoming drug addiction. He’s been very open about his background, and one of his main motivations as an athlete is to inspire others to get sober. While chatting with Michael Bisping and Anthony Smith on the Believe You Me podcast, Gordon explained how his drug use was discovered while training at Donald Cerrone’s BMF ranch in New Mexico.

“One time I was at Donald Cerrone’s ranch,” Gordon explained (via MMA News) “(Paul) Felder was fighting Ross Pearson, and I had a similar style, shorter, stockier, the way we move, so I was asked to go out for him, and I was shooting drugs at the ranch. Everybody was there. I was shooting heroin,” Gordon said.

“I was passed out in my room on the bed, and I think Jonavin (Webb) came up to me and said, ‘Hey, we need to talk to you inside,'” Gordon continued. “When I got up I had left my toiletry bag on top of the toilet with all my drugs and needles in there and I just walked out of the bathroom and fell on the bed and passed out. Obviously someone went to pee and they saw it.

It’s a bit of a tricky situation to say the least. Fortunately, fellow athletes, including Cerrone himself, were more supportive than critical. Instead, they tried to help the troubled “Flash”, staging some sort of intervention at the camp.

“So they’re all sitting there in a circle, it was like A&E Intervention. They’re like, ‘Hey, man, we found this.’ I was so embarrassed; it was such an embarrassing moment,” Gordon explained.

“They helped me. Cerrone knew someone who had a problem with opiates, and they gave me Suboxone to get rid of it. And I actually stopped using it during the time that I was I went down there, and it was really hard obviously… I was clean, and when I got home, I relapsed.

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