Johnny Manziel said on "Good Morning America" on Monday that depression and bipolar disorder played a major role in the substance-abuse issues leading to his NFL exile.
"I was self medicating with alcohol because that's what I thought was making me happy to help me get out of that depression to a point where I felt like I had some sense of happiness," Manziel, the former Heisman winner and Browns quarterback said Monday, via Cleveland.com. "But at the end of the day, when you wake up the next day after a night like that or after going on a trip like that, and you wake up the next day and that's all gone.