Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao 'not sorry' for drug use

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

Manny Pacquiao

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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