Earlier this month, Oscar de la Hoya announced he was facing a personal battle with substance abuse and checked himself into rehab. He even missed the Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Canelo Alvarez fight, even though his company, "Golden Boy Promotions", was responsible for putting on the match and Canelo is considered to be De la Hoya's protégé. At the time, he released a statement saying, "Canelo Alvarez and I have big fights coming up this weekend. His is in the ring and mine in treatment. I will not be at the fight this Saturday to cheer Canelo to victory since I have voluntarily admitted myself into a treatment facility. I explained this to Canelo and he understood that my health and long term recovery from my disease must come first."
Although De la Hoya didn't give too many details about his condition, he had recently told the Los Angeles Times that he sometimes goes to AA six times a week, but has slipped at moments. He ended his statement with the following, "Thank you for your understanding. I ask for your support and privacy during this difficult time for me and my family." Although he asked for privacy, it wasn't long before a set of graphic photos that purportedly show the troubled former boxer at the height of a cocaine binge started being shopped to the highest bidder.
Sources reportedly told TMZ that the photos were taken mere weeks before he entered rehab. They were allegedly taken at a raucous party in a Las Vegas hotel room. De la Hoya appears to use a "rolled up bill" to snort lines of a white substance off of a plate. The seller of the photos claims that the white substance is cocaine, although it hasn't been confirmed. Another image allegedly depicts De la Hoya leaning away from the same table "with a grimace on his face."
TMZ claims to have seen alleged cocaine photos, which are apparently being shopped to multiple "media outlets." Sources allegedly told the website that De la Hoya was "off the hinges" at the Las Vegas hotel party, and that the boxer made the decision to enter rehab after realizing that his addiction to cocaine had become extreme.
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