'It was like heroin' - Mike Tyson admits to using fentanyl but reveals drug left him 'throwing up'

MIKE TYSON has opened up on his previous drug use - sensationally admitting to taking fentanyl when he was still an active fighter.

Tyson began taking drugs at the tender age of ten, experimenting with acid before moving on to cocaine.

Cocaine was a constant during the former undisputed heavyweight champion's boxing career, so much so that he even took it in the moments before his 2000 showdown with Lou Savarese in Scotland .

But the beloved Tyson has also revealed that fentanyl, which is 50 times MORE POTENT THAN HEROIN , was also something he took during his career to alleviate pain.

During an appearance on The Katie Miller Podcast , he said: "It was a painkiller, and I used to use it to patch up my toe.

"It was like heroin - once it wears off and you take the Band-Aid o