Johnny Manziel Planned to Take His Life After $5 Million Bender: ‘Untold: Johnny Football’ Recap

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Johnny Manziel’s rise and fall transcended football — and he’s pulling back the curtain on his controversies and mental health struggles for the first time in Netflix’s Untold: Johnny Football.Texas A&M fans may remember Manziel’s college career got off to a rocky start when he was arrested weeks before his first game as the football-crazy school’s quarterback.

The incident marked the first of many controversies to come.“I don’t have much of a recollection other than waking up shirtless on a concrete bench in Bryan County Jail,” Manziel, who was booked for a fake ID after a fight, told Netflix cameras. “[A&M’s statement] said, ‘That wasn’t very normal for my character.’ … I guess looking back now, it was normal for my character.”It wasn’t long into the 2012 season, however, before Manizel proved that he could perform on the field regardless of his hard partying.

As a result, his coaches, as they later admitted, let him get away with whatever he wanted — and “Johnny Football” was born.After leading the Aggies to a shocking victory against No.

1 ranked Alabama in November, Manziel recalled being treated like a celebrity on and off A&M’s College Station campus. “You walk off the field like a f—king G,” he said.One month later, Manziel became a household name as the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, awarded every year to the country’s best college football player.