Search results
24 kwi 2018 · Upon returning home, executives at Billabong required that Andy go to rehab at Promises in Malibu. “Once you get on a pill run, the pill run’s a hard one to kick,” says Bruce. “That’s ...
18 sie 2018 · Andy Irons, a three-time world champion surfer, died in 2010 at the age of 32 after battling bipolar disorder and opioid addiction.
3 sie 2018 · Watching the happy, sun-kissed 7-year-old ham it up for the camera is his biggest fan, mum Lyndie, who is in Australia for the premiere of her film, Andy Irons: Kissed By God, a raw and emotionally charged biopic that openly addresses Andy’s struggles with opioid addiction and bipolar disorder.
Though diagnosed with bipolar disorder in his mid teens, Irons masked many of the symptoms with alcohol and illicit drugs, before falling deeper into dependence on prescription opiate-based pills.
30 kwi 2018 · Andy was so dynamic and he touched so many people, but he was also wrestling with mental illness and depression and was self-medicating, which led to his opioid addiction. It’s a very complex story, and you can’t tell it if the people involved weren’t committed to the truth.
12 lip 2016 · Irons and his wife, Lyndie, arrived in Australia in the winter of 2009 for six weeks of country soul rehab. Irons had already been through the L.A. version and the turnstiles were still spinning. Back at home, his drug problems had broken containment lines; he’d walked away from the Tour, he was pale, nudging 200 pounds, and it didn’t look ...
10 maj 2018 · As Outside has reported, Irons wanted to come clean with the public about his substance abuse after completing a rehab program before his death, but then, possibly under pressure, decided not...
