TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers huge receiver Mike Evans mentioned Wednesday that month he knew former Texas A&M teammate Johnny Manziel used to be suffering with psychological condition demanding situations, he wasn’t conscious about the stage of the ones struggles.

In Netflix’s “Untold: Johnny Football,” Manziel, the 2012 Heisman Trophy successful quarterback, mentioned his struggles culminated in a failed effort to finish his personal pace upcoming occurring a “$5 million bender.”

Evans advised ESPN that he applauds Manziel for opening up about the ones struggles in his documentary.

“I knew he was in a very dark place; I didn’t know about that,” Evans mentioned of the previous Cleveland Browns quarterback. “I care about him, but, you know, I didn’t know about his suicide attempt. That was news.”

Within the documentary, Manziel mentioned that upcoming burning bridges with former coaches, teammates, related pals and community contributors, having misplaced endorsements, and refusing support for his substance abuse problems, he deliberate to spend all of his cash and snatch his personal pace.

“I had planned to do everything that I wanted to do at that point in my life,” Manziel mentioned within the documentary. “Spend as much money as I possibly could and then my plan was to take my life. Months prior, I went and bought a gun I knew I was going to use. I wanted to get as bad as humanly possible to where it made sense and it made it seem like an excuse and an out for me.”

Rather, Manziel mentioned, “the gun just clicked on me.”

Manziel additionally unfolded about his demanding situations with bipolar sickness, for which he used to be recognized in 2017 and used to be self-medicating to manage.

“I thought it was very noble of him to do what he did, ’cause it takes heart to, like, admit a lot of that stuff,” mentioned Evans, including that “there’s nothing wrong” with in search of support.

Evans mentioned he knew about the whole lot else Manziel divulged within the documentary. He watched it Tuesday night time when it got here out, and he seems in it month status after to Manziel all through the Texas A&M Corridor of Popularity inductions at Kyle Ground latter generation.

The 2 book involved off and on.

“I thought it was a good documentary,” Evans advised ESPN. “I mean, there’s a lot of stuff that I knew about, questions answered for a lot of people.”

Evans mentioned Manziel had entered uncharted waters as a faculty freshman, unexpectedly thrust into the nationwide highlight upcoming successful the Heisman at life 20. Celebrities have been clamoring to satisfy him and to birthday party with him, and his off-field escapades, together with run-ins with the regulation, have been documented at each and every activate social media.

Manziel admitted to enticing in self-sabotage on account of his rising sadness with soccer when he were given to the NFL.

“People know — I mean, he’s a super-talented guy. I mean, obviously his time, it came and gone — gone real fast — and that’s hard for people to deal with,” Evans advised ESPN. “Especially, he’s like the first of his kind — a rockstar [college] quarterback who’s hanging with all celebrities. Like, that’s like the first of his kind, so he was in a tough spot early on.”