Bjorn Borg admitted in a Swedish television interview that he has used cocaine.
"I've tried cocaine, but I'm not a cocaine user," he said in an interview scheduled for broadcast Saturday. "I'm not doing drugs and I'm not a drug dealer."Excerpts of the interview were made available in advance to The Associated Press by Swedish television. The one-hour interview was scheduled to be broadcast by a Swedish network on Saturday night.
Borg, 36, who early this year resumed a comeback he started in 1991, denied several times in the past that he used cocaine. In 1990, Borg won a lawsuit against the Swedish monthly magazine "Z" which published the allegations by Jannike Bjorling, Borg's former girlfriend.
"Her allegations are false and shameless," Borg said when the lawsuit was filed in a Stockholm District Court in 1989. Earlier that year, Borg had said "I hate drugs. I hate what drugs do to young people and I would never touch it."
In the television interview, Borg said he used cocaine a long time ago, during his time with Bjorling.
Borg, whose revelations made front pages in the Swedish afternoon papers Saturday, also said in the television interview that "I'm virtually broke."