Retired seven-time NHL All-Star Theo Fleury has partnered with mental health support app iRel8 to create “Theo’s Room,” a forum where he will chat with users about his experience surviving abuse.
Fleury was a 15-year NHL superstar, mostly with the Calgary Flames. He scored 455 career goals and won both a Stanley Cup (with the Flames in 1989) and an Olympic gold medal (with Team Canada in 2002). Twice, however, he was suspended for drug use and was placed in the league’s substance abuse and behavioral health program.
In his 2009 memoir, “Playing with Fire,” Fleury wrote that he had been sexually assaulted as a teenager by a junior hockey coach, Graham James.