Former Birmingham City striker Gary O'Connor has reportedly admitted that his luxurious lifestyle, top of the range cars, expensive booze and lavish products along with doing drugs up to three times a week led him into squandering his multi-million pound fortune.
O'Connor had been earning 18,000 pounds-a-week at the peak of his career but now he finds himself living in a 65 pounds-a-week council home because of his wrong habits. He admitted that his life was out of control but he just kept quiet.
The former Scotland striker said that he knew he should never have put himself in that position but added that when one has got that much cash sloshing around one gets carried away, The Daily Star reported.
O'Connor, who has won 16 caps for Scotland, said that his problems with coke stemmed from so-called friends, and added that he always found himself in the company of people who had coke on offer all the time and it was too easy to take the drug on a night out.
O'Connor said that he has certainly not spent much cash on cocaine as it was always just put his way by so-called friends. He said that he would never touch the stuff when he was playing, but added that if he was out injured they would end up going out two or three times a week and cocaine would always appear.
O'Connor also said that he never did it before a game but would go heavy on cocaine over the weekend and get it out of his system for training on Monday.
O'Connor, who was once living in a 1.3 million pounds mansion and driving a 1,00,000 pounds Ferrari, has been convicted of cocaine possession twice in the past few years, the report added.