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Butterbean opened up about his battle with sex addiction during his glory years in boxingCredit: Focus on Sport\/Getty Images 2<\/p>\n Butterbean overcame his issues and remains happily married to his wife Libby Gaskin<\/p>\n The now 58-year-old reached immense levels of fame that also saw him crossing over to Hollywood with a hilarious cameo on Jackass<\/a> as well as WWE<\/a> where he knocked Bart Gunn out at WrestleMania<\/a> 15.<\/p>\n However, heavyweight rivals weren’t the only big challenge the American dealt with during his heyday as he also faced addiction with sexual intercourse.<\/p>\n The Georgia native admitted he had a lot of trouble beating his demons but managed to overcome them and stay happily married to his wife Libby Gaskin.<\/p>\n Butterbean told The Mirror<\/a>: “It was pretty bad.\u00a0I\u2019ve been married for a long time and I\u2019ve always loved my wife, but that was something that I\u2019ve always had trouble getting over.<\/p>\n “Now, I\u2019m good. I\u2019m confident in myself now. I don\u2019t have that problem. I\u2019m a good boy now.”<\/p>\n Butterbean previously admitted that his addiction stemmed from his school years as he was bullied for being overweight and was ignored by female classmates.<\/p>\n But now the boxer feels better than ever after also overcoming some chronic weight problems.<\/p>\n The brawler ended up weighing more than 500lbs (35.7st) after his retirement in 2013 and found himself bed bound.<\/p>\n Butterbean added: “When you can\u2019t walk and you can\u2019t walk into the store and get something to drink, you do get depressed. <\/p>\n “I was in bed for almost a year, not got out of bed, just to go to the bathroom. And I ate in the bed. I mean, I didn\u2019t even leave the bed.”<\/p>\n SunSport reporter Wally Downes Jr gives his verdict on Oleksandr Usyk’s stunning KO rematch win vs Daniel Dubois<\/p>\n However, thanks to immense help from WWE Hall of Famer and fitness guru Diamond Dallas Page<\/a> as well as his famous DDPY programme<\/a>, the boxing icon managed to lose 200lbs (14.3st).<\/p>\n Butterbean said: “I went and moved to DDP for a while, did his yoga programme, and I\u2019m in the best shape of my life right now. <\/p>\n “I feel better now at 50-something than I did when I was in my 20s, which is insane. I can\u2019t explain it, but the Fountain of Youth, I dove in it and I come out so much better.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOXING cult icon Butterbean revealed he battled sex addiction during his glory years. The famous fighter rose to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,2505,2266,2570,7334,7335,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-11279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-drugs","tag-longtail","tag-mental-health-and-illness","tag-section-sportboxing","tag-sex","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"BUTTERBEAN](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Libby-Gaskinjpg-JS1011246907.jpg\")
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