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Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao 'not sorry' for drug use

Updated on: 01 October,2016 01:59 PM IST  | 
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Philippine boxing legend Manny Pacquiao insisted yesterday he owed his fans and countrymen no apology after admitting to having used illegal drugs.

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Manila: Philippine boxing legend Manny Pacquiao insisted yesterday he owed his fans and countrymen no apology after admitting to having used illegal drugs.


Pacquiao, a national hero and elected senator, is a high-profile endorser of President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on crime that has left more than 3,000 people dead. But the 37-year-old shocked the sporting galaxy this week when he admitted in an interview he had used narcotics in his youth. “I’m not hiding the fact that I sampled those, but I was young, maybe 15 or 16 years old,” he said.



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