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Teaser - The Interview: John Ludden (Ep. 63)
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Maradona's Legendary Stories
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Speaker
About your first book, which you've already described in there, I mean, so many great stories.
Drug Incident on Italian Podcast
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Speaker
Probably my favorite story from that book, without wishing to glorify drugs, as they obviously nearly killed Maradona in the end. Probably my favorite football story of all time is when Maradona allegedly did a line of coke in the Pope's bathroom.
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Speaker
The following is a clip from this week's Italian football podcast.
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Speaker
Can you tell us about that story? Because it's just unbelievable.
Visit to the Pope in 1985
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Speaker
The story was Diego, in the early spring of 85, he went to see the Pope, got an invitation to see the Pope. Napoli had played St. Dory, I think it was. He played the Sao Paulo on the Sunday. And that night, the whole family went down to Rome to see the Pope as the song goes. So Diego goes, he's in a state and sister pillar in a taxi, and they get there. And his mum and dad sat well and look at him and he just, ugh.
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Speaker
You know, it's like anger or a despair. I don't know, they're escorted into the Pope's private area by the Swiss guard. And there, Maradona
Maradona's Paranoia and Drug Use
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Speaker
finds himself, you know, there's a long line of bishops all wanting to meet the legendary Argentinian who still doesn't really know what week it is, nevermind what day it is.
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Speaker
I mean, he gets through that, he shakes all the bishop's hands. And finally, him and Sister Pillar were escorted into the paltz, his own private residence. By this time, Diego's, he's not in a good way. The come down had really begun, he was sweating, he was paranoid, and he was shaking, and Sister Pillar noticed this, and he says, are you okay, Diego? He's like, and Maradona's whispering into Sister
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Speaker
He says, I need another line. Anyway, the assistant just points
Revitalization Before Meeting the Pope
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Speaker
to the door and he's close. He smiles. He says, the Pope's private one over there. Please be, I guess, use that. So Sister Pelleons, grats you, Grace. Anyway, Diego, he points to it and Diego swiftly heads over and shuts the door.
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pulls out his vial of cocaine, lines up over the Pope's sink, and snorts it, allegedly. One stone, one stone, he's back on planet Earth, he's beaming, he's full of life, he comes back out, and then suddenly these huge double doors to the residence open, and Pope John Paul heads in, and Diego stands, and he goes to greet him, and he's grinning manically, and the Pope said, Diego, it is wonderful to meet you, he says, and smiling, my son, always smiling,