OLYMPIC champ Greg Louganis is making waves with his new celebrity “Splash” series, but he has an ocean of sordid secrets in his past – involving rape, multiple suicide attempts and hard drug use.
The 53-year-old Olympic sports legend, who’s a trainer and coach on the ABC celebrity diving competition, says he grew up beaten and abused by his alcoholic stepfather, leaving terrible emotional scars.
“I was a miserable kid,” Louganis reveals in his autobiography “Breaking the Surface.” “At 12 years old, I decided I would kill myself.”
GREG SWALLOWED SOME PILLS and dragged a razor across his wrists, but did not cause fatal damage.
Suffering from severe mood swings, he started smoking marijuana in seventh grade and later graduated to cocaine.
“Depression has been a major problem all my life,” he divulged in his 1995 tell-all.