Chicago Strip Clubs: Theo Fleury on Blackhawk Days: "I Was Trying to Kill Myself"

Drug dealers, strippers, the homeless — these were who Fleury surrounded himself with after games.  These were the people he related most to.
“I was never afraid of anything.”
Except the dark.
“I was afraid of the dark, still to this day I have trouble.”
Fleury’s erratic downward spiraling behavior fit the crime he says.  Not his crime, but rather that of his Junior Hockey Coach Graham James.  Fleury says James sexually abused him for two years beginning at the age of 14.
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A drunken brawl at a strip club in Columbus Ohio was the end of his playing days in Chicago and the National Hockey League altogether.  Another night after partying all night, he held a gun to his head and was ready to pull the trigger.  But didn’t.

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