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Former legendary Pakistan speedster Wasim Akram has recently come up with a shocking revelation about the time when it wasn’t possible for him to socialize without the help of cocaine. His first and late wife Huma advised him to avail himself of the facility of rehab but following this, things went even south for Akram.
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Notably, the 56-year-old has also opened up about his addiction to Cocaine in his autobiography “Sultan: A Memoir”, which has also revealed that the officials at the rehab facility forced him to stay there for a long period of 2.5 months.
Speaking of Akram’s addiction to Cocaine, developed during the time when he was residing in England.
Here's what Wasim Akram said about his cocaine addiction
I developed a cocaine addiction after he retired because I started to crave a substitute for the adrenaline rush of competition, and it was finally overcome in 2009 following the death of my first wife Huma,” said Akram.
“I said alright I will go there (to the rehab center) for a month, but they kept me there for two and a half months against my will. Apparently, that is illegal in the world but not in Pakistan. That didn't help me. When I came out, a rebellion came into me. It's my money, I stayed in that horrible place against my will,” Akram revealed in The Grade Cricketer Podcast.
While summing up his remarks, Akram also talked about the differences in parenting in Western culture to that of Pakistani culture.
"When your child wakes up in the morning, you drop them off at school, pick them up, and change". However, as a father, Akram says, they never do that in his culture. "It is a wife's responsibility. The father's responsibility is to work and make money,” the 1992 World Champion pacer states further.
According to Akram, he was completely clueless about the parenting of his own kids. The Sultan of Swing also admitted that he had to take the help of the parents of his kids’ friends.