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UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again.
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Dustin's Early Life: Poverty, Violence, and No Father Figure
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Bartlett, having spent days researching Poirier's backstory, guides him through his earliest years. Poirier grew up in a working-class family in Lafayette, Louisiana, where his first memories of his parents together are of physical fighting. After they divorced around kindergarten or first grade, he spent alternating weekends with his alcoholic father. He was expelled from school for fighting, placed on probation, failed a drug test, and landed in juvenile detention at 14. [1] — Dustin Poirier "Poirier's earliest memories are of his parents fighting physically. His father was a lifelong alcoholic. By 12 or 13 he was drinking; at 14…" 08:20 He started drinking at 12 or 13. Throughout, Poirier reflects with adult clarity: he wasn't happy, he had no goals, and he was simply existing without direction until fighting gave him a north star.
Poirier describes depression as a state where everything has its own gravity pulling toward the negative — a cloud in your head you can't escape. He says he's had bouts throughout his career but the post-retirement version hit differently, and when it lands, it lands hard.
